What happens when the smallest building blocks of matter refuse to play by the rules of traditional physics? For decades, ...

Meet Bille, the name given to the world's first monostable tetrahedron—a four-faced object that will always land on the same ...

A team of researchers has developed a novel method for using cholesteric liquid crystals in optical microcavities. The ...

We present a high-throughput, end-to-end pipeline for organic crystal structure prediction (CSP)─the problem of identifying the stable crystal structures that will form from a given molecule based ...

Raman distributed high-temperature sensing (DHTS) offers unique advantages, particularly in addressing crosstalk issues of the traditional point sensors, as well as the challenges associated with the ...

While the atoms in quasicrystals are arranged in a lattice, as in a crystal, the pattern of atoms doesn't repeat like it does in conventional crystals. The new simulation method suggests quasicrystals ...

Differential neural networks (DiNNs) encounter a trade-off between the approximation quality and structural complexity. One promising approach to address this trade-off is incorporating dynamic ...

This is a summary of: Zhang, Z. et al.Unexpected clustering pattern in dwarf galaxies challenges formation models. Nature 642, 47–52 (2025).. The question. Dark-matter haloes are collapsed ...

We report the controlled synthesis of AlN/GaN multi-quantum well (MQW) radial nanowire heterostructures by metal–organic chemical vapor deposition. The structure consists of a single-crystal GaN ...