During chemical reactions, atoms in the reacting substances break their bonds and re-arrange, forming different chemical ...
Scientists discover water that's solid and liquid. Superionic ice found in lab could explain Uranus and Neptune's bizarre ...
Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have refined an X-ray diffraction technique for detecting biological structures ...
Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The ...
By forcing crystal structures to compete, scientists uncovered a new way to make magnetism twist. Florida State University ...
Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new subbasement with even weirder stuff. The number one hater of thi ...
Earth's core might be layered like an onion, according to a new study that looked at the anomalous nature of waved in the planet's iron center.
Earth’s inner core has long challenged researchers because seismic waves do not move through it uniformly. Compressional ...
Seismic waves passing through Earth's inner core have revealed much about our planet's iron center: how it's changing shape, reversing its spin, is weirdly textured, and contains an unusual state of ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have bedeviled physicists and chemists. Their atoms arrange ...