A team from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Princeton University is the winner of the prestigious 2025 John Dawson Award for becoming the first scientists to conduct a series of lab experiments successfully recreating the cosmic wobbling mechanism that enables the formation of stars, planets and supermassive black holes.

On October 1, 2025, Kyushu University will launch the Quantum and Spacetime Research Institute, a new hub dedicated to researching the unexplored frontier between quantum science and space science. Bringing together researchers from inside and outside the university, the institute will foster interdisciplinary collaboration, advancing both fundamental and applied science.

In an article published in Communications Physics, researchers from the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna present a new framework for describing physics relative to quantum reference frames, unveiling the importance of previously unrecognised “extra particles”. 

A new study from Tel Aviv University has predicted, for the first time, the groundbreaking results that can be obtained from detecting radio waves coming to us from the early Universe. The findings show that during the cosmic dark ages, dark matter formed dense clumps throughout the Universe, which pulled in hydrogen gas and caused it to emit intense radio waves. This leads to a novel method to use the measured radio signals to help resolve the mystery of dark matter.

A new class of highly efficient and scalable quantum low-density parity-check error correction codes, capable of performance approaching the theoretical hashing bound, has been developed by scientists at Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan. These novel error-correction codes can handle quantum codes with hundreds of thousands of qubits, potentially enabling large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing, with applications in diverse fields, including quantum chemistry and optimization problems.

A research team led by Prof. Guo-Yong Xiang and Prof. Wei Yi from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has reported the experimental observation of chiral switching between collective steady states in a dissipative Rydberg gas. This phenomenon, underpinned by a unique "Liouvillian exceptional structure" inherent to non-Hermitian physics, allows the state of the system to be controlled by the direction in which it is tuned through the parameter space, much like a revolving door that only allows exit in one direction. The results were published in Science Bulletin.

The brain, one of the most sophisticated and complex organs, remains a mystery in many aspects of its function. Scientists in Switzerland and China developed a groundbreaking hybrid imaging platform—HyFMRI—to simultaneously capture the dynamic activity of neurons, astrocytes, and hemodynamic responses. The technology, demonstrated in a mouse model, enables unprecedented studies of brain activity, opening new frontiers for understanding neuro-glial-vascular coupling in health and disease.