Quartz, which can generate electricity, attracts large chunks of gold when stressed and squeezed by seismic shaking, ...

Liquid crystals are all around us, from cell phone screens and video game consoles to car dashboards and medical devices. Run ...

Chemists at MIT have now introduced a new generative AI model to determine the structures of crystalline materials such as metals, rocks, and ceramics.

An international group of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania found that liquid crystals can condense into ...

Video showing the liquid crystal condensates forming -- the right-hand side uses false color to differentiate the filaments (light blue) and flattened discs (yellow). Video is at 60x real time and 5x ...

Rising temperatures are thought to reduce the number of ice crystals in clouds, leading to the formation of liquid-dominated clouds. However, a new study has found that Arctic warming is causing an ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars by uncovering pure sulfur crystals within a broken rock.

Lauren Mc Keown of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California said, “I love DUSTIE. It’s historic; the wine ...

Bose glass can retain quantum information for long periods, signaling potential advancements in quantum computing and ...

Understanding how light travels through various materials is essential for many fields, from medical imaging to manufacturing ...

Has a UC Berkeley chemistry lab discovered the holy grail of plastic recycling? Maybe, but with a lot of caveats.

Physicists have created the first two-dimensional version of the Bose glass, a novel phase of matter that challenges statistical mechanics.