By forcing crystal structures to compete, scientists uncovered a new way to make magnetism twist. Florida State University ...

One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists ...

Crystalline quartz films grown on four-inch silicon wafers detect Chikungunya virus at sensitivities surpassing standard ...

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New research offers clearer insight into how phase transitions unfold at the atomic scale in real materials. When ice turns into water, the change happens almost instantly. Once the melting ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have shown, for the first time with very high time and spatial resolution, that electrons in ...

Two related discoveries detailing nanocrystalline mineral formation and dynamics have broad implications for managing nuclear ...

A shiny gray crystal called platinum-bismuth-two hides an electronic world unlike anything scientists have seen before.

Scientists reveal a new state of matter between liquids and solids, where some atoms remain immobile even in molten metals.

Using a diamond as a quantum simulator, scientists created a rondeau time crystal, which exhibited both long-range temporal ...

A crystal is a solid with a periodic atomic structure and a deviation from the periodicity of the crystal lattice is called a defect. Crystalline defects include point defects (e.g. colour centres) ...