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The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the ERC Synergy Grants. Three researchers involved in the successful applications are employed at TU Delft.

A solution to a tricky groundwater riddle from Australia: Researchers at TU Wien have developed numerical models to simulate the movement of fluids in porous materials.

Two consortium projects involving researchers from Radboud University have received funding from NWO.

Two Caltech historians associated with the Einstein Papers Project have gathered together what they consider to be the most important of Einstein's writings, scientific and otherwise, in a two-volume set titled The Essential Einstein, published by Princeton University Press.

Astronomers from The Australian National University (ANU) have revealed how the Milky Way's hidden gas moves through space, by using the joint power of two of the nation's flagship telescopes.

According to a CNRS communication dated September 30, 2025.

Carnegie Mellon University chemistry Ph.D. candidate Abhrojyoti Mazumder struck gold with nanocluster research.

NWO has awarded 149 researchers a Vidi grant. Sixteen promising TU Delft researchers from the domains Exact and Natural Sciences (ENS), Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) and Applied and Technical Sciences (ATS) have been awarded.

An artificial intelligence that independently plans, carries out and analyses a complete experiment on an atomic force microscope (AFM): This is exactly what an international team of researchers in India, Denmark and Jena has demonstrated. The AI agent AILA (»Artificially Intelligent Lab Assistant«) calibrates the microscope, selects operating modes, saves and analyses image data-and decides on whether to take a new image if necessary.

Out of two possible states, photons prefer the one already shared by many other photons As far as particles of light are concerned, the collective is more important than the individual. When they get to decide between two states, they will favor the one that many of their fellow particles have already adopted.

A powerful new telescope has captured its first glimpse of the cosmos, and could transform our understanding of how stars, galaxies and black holes evolve. The 4MOST (4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope), mounted on the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope in Chile, achieved its 'first light' on 18 October 2025: a milestone marking the start of its scientific mission.

National press release. The 4MOST instrument, installed in Chile on the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) VISTA telescope and developed largely by teams from the CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , and ENS de Lyon, has just achieved first light.

The 4MOST instrument, installed on the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile and developed in large part by CNRS teams at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and ENS Lyon, has captured its first light.

Posted on: 21 October 2025 Astrophysicists are leading a project (TiDES) that will improve our understanding of the mysterious "dark energy" that comprises roughly two-thirds of the Universe and is responsible for its accelerating expansion.

A new revolution from metallurgy to materials science: A research team led by Assistant Professor Matheus A. Tunes from the [X-MAT] - Laboratory for Metallurgy in Extreme Environments at the C

Astronomers have long suspected that Betelgeuse - the bright red star blazing in Orion's shoulder - wasn't alone.

When machine learning is used to suggest new potential scientific insights or directions, algorithms sometimes offer solutions that are not physically sound. Take for example AlphaFold, the AI system that predicts the complex ways in which amino acid chains will fold into 3D protein structures. The system sometimes suggests "unphysical" folds-configurations that are implausible based on the laws of physics-especially when asked to predict the folds for chains that are significantly different from its training data.

Researchers have demonstrated the first pill-sized bioprinter that can be swallowed and guided within the gastrointestinal tract, where it directly deposits bio-ink over damaged tissues to support repair. Soft tissue injuries of the gastrointestinal tract, like ulcers or hemorrhages, can currently be treated only with some form of surgery, which is invasive and may not result in permanent repair.

Several commercially viable technologies use quantum science for practical applications in health care, environmental monitoring, navigation, communications and particle physics.

Simon Fraser University has strategically recruited a team of world-class researchers with the interdisciplinary expertise needed to advance Canadian leadership in the global quantum computing ecosystem.

Carnegie Mellon University Associate Professor Sufei Shi has been selected by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to be part of the 2025 cohort of Experimental Physics Investigators.

SXS- Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes -is an ongoing scientific collaboration that has been generating simulations of dramatic events in space, particularly mergers of binary black hole systems, for several decades.

New detector concept uses cutting-edge optical cavity and atomic clock technologies to sense gravitational waves in the elusive milli-Hertz frequency band. Scientists have unveiled a new approach to detecting gravitational waves in the milli-Hertz frequency range, providing access to astrophysical and cosmological phenomena that are not detectable with current instruments.

The fossil of a tiny fish found in southwestern Alberta provides new insight into the origin and evolution of otophysans, the supergroup of fish that includes catfish, carp and tetras, which today account for two-thirds of all freshwater species.

Quantum computing could revolutionize information technology by harnessing the strange principles of quantum mechanics.

August 2025 marks a historic milestone for particle physics research: JUNO, the world's largest underground neutrino detector, has officially begun recording its first data, thanks in no small part to the contribution of the team from the ULB-VUB Interuniversity Institute for High Energy.

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a better way to enhance the clarity and detail of eye images used to diagnose disease by teaching artificial intelligence (AI) software the science behind the imaging process.

Quantum computers will need large numbers of qubits to tackle challenging problems in physics, chemistry, and beyond.

By combining physics-based methods with machine learning, a team at the Institute of Thermodynamics and Sustainable Propulsion Systems at TU Graz is developing models that deliver better results despite less training data.

A spinout co-founded by a UCL professor has built the world's first full-stack quantum computer made with the same silicon chip technology that is used in laptops and phones.

A pioneering team of scientists at Simon Fraser University have created a new type of silicon-based quantum device controlled both optically and electrically, marking the latest breakthrough in the global quantum computing race.

An international team of scientists, led by Professor Chris Done of our Physics Department, has made a surprising discovery about powerful winds blasting from around a neutron star.

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has unveiled new, detailed images of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87, that reveal a dynamic environment with changing polarization patterns near the black hole.

Published in -Nature Communications Materials-, Paper Details Creation of Record-Setting Red Emission from InGaN Quantum Wells GRENOBLE, France - Sept.