A research team with scientists from MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen studies the hemispheric origin of Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) and find a high Southern Hemispheric contribution over the past 800,000 years. The results, now published in the journal Nature Communications, highlight an important and direct pathway from high southern latitudes to the tropical oceans.

Scientists from Fudan University have developed a graphene-integrated silicon nitride microtube resonator via self-rolling nanomembrane technology. By engineering a  lobe structure, they achieved axial mode quantization, creating a potential well that confines light and significantly enhances the quality factor. The device demonstrates high photoresponsivity (2.80 A W^-1) and intrinsic polarization sensitivity, offering a versatile platform for compact, high-performance on-chip photonic-electronic systems.

A new scenario for superconductivity is revealed, whereby applying pressure to the Kondo ferromagnet Ce5CoGe2 first induces a change of magnetic ground state, with superconductivity appearing at higher pressures beyond a magnetic quantum critical point.

Maze magnetic domains in soft magnetic materials strongly influence energy loss in electric motors, particularly at high temperatures. However, existing models struggle to explain their complex, temperature-dependent behavior. To address this gap, researchers developed an entropy-extended Ginzburg-Landau model combined with data-driven analysis to study these structures. The approach reveals how entropy and energy interactions drive magnetization reversal and increasing domain complexity, providing new insights into magnetic energy-loss mechanisms.

A research team from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has simulated and extended a famous quantum phenomenon , the Aharonov–Bohm effect, using a simple water tank. By sending water waves toward a swirling vortex from opposite directions of the tank, the team observed flat, rotating lines of water that radiate across the whole tank. This classical analogue offers a visually accessible way of studying how the quantum world behaves. 

University of Manchester chemists and international collaborators have isolated a rare three‑atom bismuth ring and shown it behaves as an aromatic metal system, marking a major step forward in understanding chemical bonding beyond carbon.

Researchers have developed a new method to measure the small forces exerted by light with high precision. Using this approach, they discovered a surprising phenomenon in which light can twist tiny objects sideways, in a direction perpendicular to the light's direction of travel.

How can the mild flavor of flaxseed oil be preserved for longer? A research team led by Roman Lang from the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich has investigated this question. As the team demonstrates in its latest study, natural precursors of bitter-tasting compounds can be gently removed from the oil using bleaching earth (magnesium-aluminum silicate). This results in significantly fewer bitter-tasting compounds formed during storage, and the flaxseed oil remains flavor-stable for longer. The particular advantage: The high content of health-beneficial fatty acids as well as the oil’s typical character are preserved despite the purification process.

Researchers at TU Wien have shown that many 2D materials once considered highly promising are in fact unsuitable for this purpose. When 2D materials are combined with an insulating layer, an extremely thin gap inevitably forms between them, drastically degrading their electronic properties. The good news is that this approach also allows researchers to identify which materials are not affected by this problem—potentially saving the semiconductor industry from investing billions in technologies that are fundamentally limited by the laws of physics.