ALMA and JWST investigate giant disk galaxy’s formation and evolution

Astronomers investigate the formation and evolution of a giant disc galaxy
ALMA and JWST imaging of ADF22.1. Credit: arXiv (2026). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2604.07440

European astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a recently discovered giant disk galaxy known as ADF22.1. Results of the new observations, published April 8 on the arXiv preprint server, shed more light on the formation and evolution of this galaxy.

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ADF22.1, also known as ADF22.A1, is a giant disk barred spiral galaxy residing in a protocluster known as SSA22 at a redshift of 3.09. It has an effective radius of some 22,800 light years and a stellar mass of about 100 billion solar masses...

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This nasal spray rewinds the aging brain, restoring memory and reversing inflammation in preclinical models

In Shetty’s lab, researchers develop an innovative nasal spray targeting brain aging.

Credit: Texas A&M University Division of Marketing and Communications

Picture this: your brain is a high-performance engine. Over decades, it doesn’t just wear down, it also starts to run hot. Tiny “fires” of inflammation smolder deep within the brain’s memory center, creating a persistent brain fog that makes it harder to think, form new memories or even adapt to new environments, all the while increasing the risk to disorders like Alzheimer’s disease.

Scientists call this slow burn “neuroinflammaging,” and for decades it was thought to be the inevitable price of growing older. Until now.

A landmark study by researchers at Texas A&M University Naresh K...

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Scientists think dark matter might come in two forms

Dark Matter Might Come in Two Forms
Dark matter might not be one particle, but two—and that could explain why only the Milky Way shows a mysterious gamma-ray signal. If the balance between these particles varies across galaxies, the universe may be hiding its clues in uneven ways. Credit: AI/ScienceDaily.com

Dark matter may come in two flavors—finally explaining why its signals appear in some galaxies but vanish in others. A mysterious glow of gamma rays at the center of the Milky Way has long hinted at dark matter, but the lack of similar signals in smaller dwarf galaxies has cast doubt on that idea. Now, researchers propose a bold twist: dark matter might not be a single particle at all, but a mix of two different types that must interact with each other to produce detectable signals.

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Smart cable sharing gives quantum computers a big boost

An artist’s rendering of time multiplexing of control signals to a quantum computer.
The control signals for single-qubit gates (short blocks) and two-qubit gates (long blocks) travel through common cables (tunnels) to switches, which distribute them among the qubits (spheres) based on switching signals (diamonds). By ordering the control signals in a clever way, akin to playing Tetris, traffic jams in the flow of control signals can largely be avoided and programs on the quantum computer can be executed almost as fast as if each qubit had its own cable for control signals.
Credit: Chalmers University of Technology | Boid

A major obstacle in the development of powerful quantum computers is the growing number of cables required to control a computer as the number of qubits increases...

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