Quantum metasurface boosts terahertz detection sensitivity by exploiting in-plane photoelectric effect

The science academies of G7 member countries have identified international space governance as a pressing issue for the G7 Leaders' Summit, to be held from June 15–17 in Evian, France.

The latest discoveries by an international research team, which includes Academy Research Fellow Ferhat Kaya from the University of Oulu, Finland, offer a detailed view of how early humans lived, moved, and adapted to their environment 100,000 years ago. The group has been studying the Afar Rift since 1981. The study is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Changes in work capacity can provide early signals for who is at risk of sick leave, according to a doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg. The findings point to new ways to identify the need for support before employees leave work.

A team of U.S. astronomers has observed a binary pair of white dwarfs where one star is actively devouring material from the other. Led by Emma Chickles at MIT, the researchers revealed one of the clearest views yet of how ultracompact white dwarf binaries exchange mass at extreme orbital periods—offering an enticing potential target for future generations of gravitational wave detectors. The research has been published in The Astrophysical Journal.