Water, a molecule essential for life, has unusual properties -- known as anomalies -- that define its behavior. However, there are still many enigmas about the molecular mechanisms that would explain ...

Wei Bao, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic ...

Scientists created photonic time crystals, unique materials that amplify light and could enhance lasers, sensors, and ...

A class of material called perovskites, which have special electronic bonding with many applications, could be useful for ...

Brown University physics Prof. Stephon Alexander spoke on how the analysis of musical elements can help astrophysicists ...

Five eminent speakers, including Nobel laureates and the top Chinese physicist Qi-Kun Xue, share groundbreaking insights at ...

A team of physicists at ETH Zürich has built the first-ever working mechanical qubit. In their paper published in the journal ...

The UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase set out a bold ambition for the sector. Katherine Skipper asks whether the ...

Scintillators are detectors that make high-energy X-rays or particles visible through flashes of light to form an image.

A new route to materials with complex ‘disordered’ magnetic properties at the quantum level has been produced by scientists ...

Ekert said that this statistical codebreaking technique was developed in the 9th century by the Arab polymath Al-Kindi. This ...

Scientists have created a quantum spin liquid, a long-sought-after state of matter with potential for quantum computing.