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The first line of treatment for cancer is, whenever possible, to remove the cancerous tissue from the body. Though often remarkably effective, removing only the cancerous tissue is a challenge for doctors and surgeons. With no intraoperative method to analyze excised tissues, a surgeon typically must rely on preoperative visualizations-ultrasounds, MRIs, and the like-to accurately locate cancerous tissue and then postoperative examinations of the excised tissue to determine whether the cancer has been entirely removed.

Posted on: 09 January 2026 Physicists from Trinity believe new insights into the behaviour of light may offer a new means of solving one of science's oldest challenges - how to turn heat into useful energy.

In May 2024, the strongest solar storm in twenty years raged. An international team led by ETH Zurich observed it. Their findings are now helping to improve space weather forecasts. Our sun rotates around its axis once every 28 days. From earth, therefore, active regions of the sun can only be observed for up to two weeks at a time.

At TU Wien, researchers have discovered a state in a quantum material that had previously been considered impossible.

Through Carnegie Mellon University's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, junior physics major Joao Passos is learning how stars and solar systems form by studying brown dwarfs - objects bigger than planets but smaller than stars.

Line Jelver, a newly appointed assistant professor at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), has received DKK 13.3 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

Researchers from the University of Innsbruck, the Collège de France, and the Université Libre de Bruxelles have developed a simple yet powerful method to reveal anyons-exotic quantum particles that are neither bosons nor fermions-in one-dimensional systems.

Three quantum researchers were presented with the Nobel Prize in Stockholm on 10 December. Meanwhile, this year marked the centenary of quantum mechanics as a field of research.

Astronomers have observed the longest gamma-ray burst - a powerful, extragalactic explosion that lasted more than seven hours.

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) collaboration involving UCL researchers has achieved a new record in its search for dark matter and for the first time picked up signals from neutrinos produced in the Sun's core, a milestone in sensitivity. Analysing data from the world's most sensitive dark matter detector collected over 417 days, the international research team put the best-ever limits on weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for what makes up our universe's invisible mass.

The Würzburg-led research unit "Relativistic Jets in Active Galaxies" has been investigating the powerful plasma beams emitted by supermassive black holes since 2021.

Prof. Dominik Bach is setting up cutting-edge research infrastructure at the University of Bonn with funding of almost four million euros What is happening in the brain during an epileptic seizure?

The unique data from ESA's Solar Orbiter spacecraft aims to explain why the Sun's activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. South pole data: In March, ESA's spacecraft Solar Orbiter had its first clear view of the Sun-s south pole. A first analysis has now been published. It shows supergranulation, i.e., huge cells of hot plasma that cover the Sun and create the large-scale, net-like structure of the magnetic field on its surface.

McGill researchers develop a cheaper, safer material for use in solar panels, sensors and optical devices Breakthrough, using 'nature's building blocks,' harnesses plant-virus proteins to create nano

When a gas is highly energized, its electrons get torn from the parent atoms, resulting in a plasma-the oft-forgotten fourth state of matter (along with solid, liquid, and gas). When we think of plasmas, we normally think of extremely hot phenomena such as the Sun, lightning, or maybe arc welding, but there are situations in which icy cold particles are associated with plasmas.

A prototype device which has demonstrated record-breaking longevity could help open up new frontiers in next-generation communications and computing technologies.

The University of Innsbruck is coordinating a new FWF special research area on the dark universe, which seeks answers to the biggest questions in modern cosmology.

In 2002, undergraduate student Emma Spanswick walked down a University of Calgary Physics department hallway and changed the course of both her career and global space science.

Calculations of predictions for gravitational wave signals: theoretical physicists find new approach Gravitational wave astronomy has developed rapidly since the first direct measurement of gravitational waves in 2015. However, it is still a challenge to develop precise mathematical models for the gravitational wave signals that encode information about the physics of black holes and neutron stars.

At TU Wien, researchers have created a one-dimensional "quantum wire" made from a gas of ultracold atoms, where mass and energy flow without friction or loss. In physical systems, transport takes many forms, such as electric current through a wire, heat through metal, or even water through a pipe. Each of these flows can be described by how easily the underlying quantity-charge, energy, or mass-moves through a material.

Researchers from ETH Zurich have manufactured organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) on a nanoscale - that's around a hundred times smaller than a human cell.

The spin-off VM Photonics GmbH delivers ultra-stable and 10 times purer laser light for high-precision optical measurements Business innovation: VM Photonics GmbH is a spin-off of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI) and Leibniz University Hannover.

Something strange goes on inside platinum-bismuth-two (PtBi2). A new study by the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat demonstrates that while PtBi2 looks like a typical crystal, electrons moving through it do something spectacular.

An important step toward visual prostheses: biocompatible electrodes can convert infrared light into nerve impulses, as demonstrated by a team at TU Wien.

How can we best explain complex quantum systems? By using quantum systems that are easier to handle.

According to a CNRS publication dated November 5, 2025. Based on a scientific publication in Nature Communications to which Stéphane Santucci, a CNRS researcher at ENS de Lyon's Physics Laboratory (LPENSL), contributed: Multiscale stress dynamics in sheared liquid foams revealed by tomo-rheoscopy.

Chemists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and physicists from the University of Stuttgart are working together to develop new models to describe electrochemically controlled molecular self-organization.

Particle colliders are unique instruments that allow the smallest constituents of matter and the laws of the universe to be studied at the most fundamental level.

Four new projects at Università della Svizzera italiana have been selected for the SNSF Spark programme, promoted by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) to support innovative and unconventional ideas in the early stages of development.