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15 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: November 10, 2026.
Physicists in the U.S. and Germany show that intense classical waves in a nonlinear optical system can mediate effective interactions between photons that normally pass through each other.
A 30-micrometer magnet floating in a superconducting trap reached 138 million revolutions per minute and set preliminary limits on axion-like dark matter.
Genomes from a French cave woman and 22,000-year-old cave sediment show eastern and western European groups mixed over long distances more than 30,000 years ago.
The world's oldest known land animal carries 287 unique gene variants and an epigenome that looks younger than his years, offering clues to aging, though researchers stress the study covers a single animal.
University of Chicago physicists found millions of electrons moving together slowly yet coherently in Fe5GeTe2, a result that contradicts theory and persists up to 100 kelvin.
Cassini data show plume droplets freeze slowly and shatter, concentrating salts and organics into separate ice grains, and a second study found a methane-making microbe thriving in simulated Enceladus seawater.
Using Pliny the Younger's eyewitness account of Vesuvius as a benchmark, Berkeley researchers sharpened argon-argon dating to 0.4% accuracy and halved the uncertainty on potassium-40's half-life.
An Intuitive Machines image specialist spotted the fresh scar on Oct. 24, 2025, and 'dropped everything.' The blast churned the surface over 66 miles and left a 4-mile cold spot. The IAU has named it McGetchin.
The first stellar occultation ever planned and observed with JWST shows Chariklo's inner ring getting denser while its outer ring thins out. Rings around small bodies were supposed to be stable.
Tulane researchers found that vesper bats have two separate sets of immunoglobulin heavy-chain genes, an arrangement never before documented in a mammal. It may be part of why bats host viruses that would kill us without getting sick themselves.
A team including Roger Penrose held one branch of a rubidium atom's wavefunction against gravity and dropped the other. The phase shift when they recombined matched the equivalence principle.
More than 100 specimens dated to 567 million years ago include six groups never before found in North America, and evidence that early animals moved, reproduced sexually and built recognizable body plans earlier than thought.
Inside fallout debris from the 1945 atomic blast, researchers found a silicon-rich iron alloy with an atomic order never seen in any industrial material — condensed from vapor and frozen in the expanding fireball.
A University of Pittsburgh team showed the direction of turbulent energy transfer can be flipped, challenging Kolmogorov's 1941 theory and opening the door to steering ocean currents and microfluidic devices.
Two new studies using real-world ocean data find that earlier climate models underestimated AMOC weakening by 60 percent, raising collapse probability above 50% and threatening catastrophic consequences for Europe, Africa, and the U.S. East Coast.