Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have announced a new discovery.

Oxygen, the colorless and odorless gas that is essential to the survival of humans and other living organisms, is estimated ...

Researchers in Vienna have discovered something remarkable: crystals that don’t form in space, like diamonds or salt, but in ...

Nature has many rhythms: the seasons result from Earth's movement around the sun, the ticking of a pendulum clock results ...

Despite being one of the most familiar substances on Earth, water holds many secrets that scientists are still working to understand. When confined to ...

Water, though familiar, still hides astonishing secrets. When squeezed into nanosized channels, it can enter a bizarre ...

Time crystals are physical systems that generate a special kind of order in time. Now scientists in Vienna discovered a new ...

In their study, Zhao and Smalyukh created a space–time crystal in the nematic phase of a liquid crystal. In this phase the crystal’s rod-like molecules align parallel to each other and also flow like ...

A time crystal is a form of matter that shows continuous, repeating patterns over time, much like how atoms in a normal ...

Everything is born out of nothing. All you do is shine a light, and this whole world of time crystals emerges,” said University of Colorado Boulder physicist Ivan Smalyukh. In a field where most ...

Everything is born out of nothing,” said Ivan Smalyukh, a physicist at the University of Colorado Boulder. “All you do is shine a light, and this whole world of time crystals emerges.”. In a paper in ...

Lyotropic liquid crystalline (LLC) nanoparticles have gained significant attention as drug delivery systems owing to their unique self-assembly properties, biocompatibility, and ability to encapsulate ...