Scientists have developed a sunlight-driven method that uses liquid metals to extract clean hydrogen directly from both freshwater and seawater. By exploiting the unusual chemistry of gallium, the ...

Time crystals are probably one of the most fascinating recent discoveries in physics. We know what a regular crystal is – a ...

Exotic states of matter known as time crystals are largely considered a quantum phenomenon. Now, a team from New York University (NYU) has shown that a classical time crystal can emerge in a far ...

Charge density waves (CDWs) are ordered, crystal-like patterns in the arrangement of electrons that spontaneously form inside ...

When materials become just one atom thick, melting no longer follows the familiar rules. Instead of jumping straight from solid to liquid, an unusual in-between state emerges, where atomic positions ...

Study: Observing growth of metallic crystals inside liquid metal solvents. Gallium in a petri dish. Image Credit: Philip Ritchie/The University of Sydney Researchers at the University of Sydney have ...

Scientists uncovered a quantum spin liquid, a state of matter that may have applications for quantum information. (Nanowerk News) The blue-green lab-grown crystals look like solid rocks, but their ...

A time crystal is a form of matter that shows continuous, repeating patterns over time, much like how atoms in a normal crystal repeat in space. Examples once existed in only complex, quantum matter, ...

Researchers created a strange quantum crystal from a material found in smartphones—the first of its kind visible to the naked eye. Reading time 2 minutes Of all the eccentricities of the quantum realm ...

Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have announced the creation of the world’s first visible “time crystal” that can be seen with a microscope or even with the naked eye under certain ...