Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous, continent-sized structures known as LLVPs. Scientists once believed these ...

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 ...