Earth's inner core may be layered like an onion, with silicon and carbon creating distinct zones that explain seismic wave ...

When you step onto an icy sidewalk or push off on skis, the surface can seem to vanish beneath you. For more than a century, ...

A new alloy combines the best of the refractory metals with cutting-edge engineering. Even these extremely tough metals can ...

Mucic acid crystals grown from a water-based solution achieved a record-breaking stiffness for an organic crystal.

Scientists unveil a solid electrolyte that moves lithium as fast as liquids, promising safer, fast-charging batteries.

For more than a century, schoolbook physics has divided matter into neat categories like solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. A ...

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

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 ...

Amarillo firefighters contained an early-morning house fire on Crystal Avenue Wednesday. No injuries were reported; the cause ...

Researchers discover that embedding iridium atoms inside catalyst crystals instead of on the surface dramatically improves ...

Now, researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the Abdus Salam International ...

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