NASA's Curiosity rover found pure sulfur crystals inside a rock after backing over and accidentally crushing it on May 30, ...

Quantum entanglement has long been understood as something that happens at the smallest possible scales, between individual ...

TU Wien has detected strong quantum entanglement for the first time in a centimeter-sized crystal of a strange metal.

Color-changing mood rings, forehead fever strips and car-shade indicators all change hues as they warm and cool, thanks to a ...

The AI-based program AlphaFold predicts a protein's 3D structure with remarkable accuracy. However, it tends to reduce heterogeneous structures to a single dominant conformation, or shape, and ...

Raphael Gomes performs a strange experiment to see whether creamy chocolate spread can actually crystallize like candy.

Quantum light sources may be closer to practical use: researchers at the University of Technology Sydney demonstrated that ...

In our digital lives, it is easy to forget about the technology in our smooth smartphones, TVs, and flat screens. The foundation of liquid crystal display technology began with an accidental ...

These crystals can do some crazy things. One recent paper reports crystals that ripple like snakes as their molecules rearrange from one polymorph to another at their phase-transition temperature. And ...

Nearly 81 years ago, the first nuclear bomb exploded. The Trinity test, conducted as part of the Manhattan Project in the New Mexico desert, detonated a plutonium bomb that released the energy of 25 ...

Scientists have created the first visible time crystal -matter that repeats through time instead of space – revealing a phase of matter whose internal patterns repeat through time while remaining ...

A California forensic science teacher is getting her moment in the spotlight, and it’s not just her students she’s impressing. Erin Andrade, who teaches forensic research and biotechnology at the ...