Nature is replete with slender filaments that bend and coil – from climbing grape vines, to folded proteins, to elephant ...

Quantum melting observed: Scientists melted electron crystals in tantalum sulfide, revealing a process similar to solid melting but affecting only electronic properties. Potential tech impact: ...

Chemists at the University of Iowa have created a light-activated structure that captures and stores water from the air. The ...

Nature is replete with slender filaments that bend and coil – from climbing grape vines, to folded proteins, to elephant trunks that can pick up a peanut but also take down a tree. Harvard scientists ...

In a process analogous to how solids melt into liquids, the electrons in many different metals form crystal-like patterns ...

The team synthesized a uniform nanocrystal composed of five different metals: ruthenium, iron, cobalt, nickel, and copper.

A nanocrystal is an extraordinarily tiny piece of material—composed of anywhere from a few to a few thousand atoms—in which ...

Shakhtar Donetsk on Wednesday visited the south London grave of the Welsh metal worker who founded the Ukrainian city in 1870 ...

Rihanna's hairstylist used 40 handcrafted wires that were painted gold to give the singer the illusion of metal curls and a ...

Creating quantum entanglement inside a solid material is tricky in the lab – but crystals buried in the earth could be ...