Figure 1. Conceptual diagram of the world’s fastest two-qubit gate. Two atoms captured in optical tweezers (red light) with a separation of a micrometer are…
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Inside Japan’s Large Helical Device (LHD) stellarator, built to test plasma fusion confinement. Credit: Justin Ruckman New insights into understanding turbulence in fusion plasmas. In…
Left: Normal spermatogenesis in the scrotum (34°C) Right: Impaired spermatogenesis in the abdomen (38°C). Credit: NIBB Testicles of most mammals are cooled in the scrotum,…
Research team reveals what drives the circadian rhythms in cyanobacteria. Scientists want to increase their understanding of circadian rhythms, those internal 24-hour biological clock cycles…
Forming planets are one possible explanation for the rings and gaps observed in disks of gas and dust around young stars. But this theory has…
The photosynthetic sea slug, Plakobranchus ocellatus type black, (left) and an electron micrograph displaying sequestered algal chloroplasts within a sea slug cell (right). Credit: Taro…
Schematical representation of the expansion of the Universe over the course of its history. Credit: NAOJ An international research team analyzed a database of more…
Unprecedented high-resolution map of the Orion Nebula Cluster showing newborn stars (orange squares), gravitationally collapsing gas cores (red circles), and non-collapsing gas cores (blue crosses).…
The bent jet structures emitted from MRC 0600-399 as observed by the MeerKAT radio telescope (left) are well reproduced by the simulation conducted on ATERUI…
Conceptual image. By observing a comet in thermal infrared wavelengths, the same wavelengths used by noncontact thermometers, it is possible to determine not only its…
Image of the galaxy cluster RXCJ0600-2007 taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, combined with gravitational lensing images of the distant galaxy RXCJ0600-z6, 12.4 billion…
Gas moving toward us is shown in blue and gas moving away from us is shown in red. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Lu et al. Astronomers…
Schematic diagram of the evolution of the Universe from the inflation (left) to the present (right). The “reconstruction method” winds back the evolution from right…
Artist’s impression of the ions and electrons in various space plasmas. Credit: Yohei Kawazura New simulations carried out in part on the ATERUI II supercomputer…
The converging lines represent the paths of the comets. The ecliptic plane is shown in yellow and the empty ecliptic is shown in blue. The…
Wide-field far-infrared image of the Taurus Molecular Cloud obtained by the Herschel Space Observatory and stellar eggs observed with ALMA (insets). Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Tokuda…
Figure 1. Schematic of the metal-like quantum gas. Credit: NINS/IMS Electronic properties of condensed matter are often determined by an intricate competition between kinetic energy…