MIT physicists have made an exciting discovery: in an ultra-thin material, electrons can form crystal-like structures, acting like tiny frozen blocks of energy. This unexpected finding adds to a ...

Supersolids are materials that challenge both logic and expectations. At first glance, a supersolid appears to be a typical ...

Electrons in rhombohedral pentalayer graphene form unexpected crystalline states, revealing new quantum behaviors and ...

MIT physicists report the unexpected discovery of electrons forming crystalline structures in a material only billionths of a meter thick. The work ...

Geochemical evidence from laboratory experiments for a potential solid inner core at the center of Mars is reported in Nature ...

In the race to meet the growing global demand for lithium -- a critical component in batteries for electric vehicles -- a team of researchers has developed a breakthrough lithium extraction method ...

The electric vehicle (EV) revolution has been held back by a major challenge: battery technology. While lithium-ion batteries ...

Explore the new material that transforms from solid to liquid on demand, revolutionizing technology in various fields.

A new form of ice that acts as both a liquid and a solid simultaneously has been proven to exist years after it was theorized ...

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

Scientists at the University of Chicago have developed a groundbreaking crystal memory that stores terabytes of data in a millimeter-sized cube ...