“Looking at things at a very, very fast rate allows us to observe weird and wonderful phenomena,” Salamat says, calling the ...

NYU Abu Dhabi researchers discover the first organic crystalline material that not only remains flexible, but can also ...

Florida State University scientists have engineered a new crystal that forces atomic magnets to swirl into complex, repeating ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (Yonhap) -- A U.S. expert called Tuesday for the United States to flag China's installation of maritime structures in and around a jointly managed zone between South Korea and China ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. We adapted an existing approach to identifying stabilizable crystal structures from ...

IF YESTERDAY’S ANNOUNCEMENT of the Nobel prize in physics—for developments in quantum mechanics that helped give birth to quantum computers—was greeted with general bafflement, today Sweden’s Royal ...

Members of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry hold a model of a metal-organic framework during the 2025 prize announcement in Stockholm on October 8. Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP via Getty Images Three ...

In the dog days of summer, popping a tray of water into the freezer to make ice cubes may seem mundane. But at the smallest scales, we still don’t know a lot about how freezing unfolds. Now, the first ...

Lyotropic liquid crystalline (LLC) nanoparticles have gained significant attention as drug delivery systems owing to their unique self-assembly properties, biocompatibility, and ability to encapsulate ...

The brilliantly shiny diamond is more than just pretty; it's one of the hardest minerals on Earth, with a name derived from the Greek word adámas, meaning unbreakable. Scientists have now engineered a ...

Ice is a key component in the universe. There are frozen water molecules on comets, moons, exoplanets, and in your drink as you cool off from the summer heat. However, under the microscope, not all ...