When materials become just one atom thick, melting no longer follows the familiar rules. Instead of jumping straight from ...

Florida State University scientists have engineered a new crystal that forces atomic magnets to swirl into complex, repeating patterns. The effect comes from mixing two nearly identical compounds ...

Inside the cores of ice giant planets, the pressure and temperature are so extreme that the water residing there transitions ...

Winter Storm Fern, a rare convergence of Arctic cold and Southwest moisture, seems set to bring Arctic weather to many parts ...

Water doesn’t behave the same way in a glass as it does as ice in your freezer. When water is heated to several thousand ...

DIAMOND is generally thought to be one of the most perfect crystals occurring naturally: its atomic structure was first investigated in the very early days of X-ray crystal analysis. It turned out ...

Motionless atoms can trap liquid metal in a strange new state that shouldn’t exist. Scientists have discovered that a liquid does not always behave the way it seems. Even when a material is fully ...

Researchers have discovered a metallic material with the highest thermal conductivity measured among metals.

Shape memory alloys are exotic materials that can be deformed at room temperature and return to their "remembered," ...

A new scientific review outlines how a little understood class of battery materials could help deliver safer, higher energy lithium ion batteries while reducing reliance on critical metals such as ...

Earth’s deep interior may hold water equal to today’s oceans, challenging long-held views of how the planet became habitable.

Researchers demonstrate a powerful new approach to Floquet engineering, which for decades has sought to imbue 'trivial' ...