Every crystal's shape is a mirror of the internal arrangement of its molecules, but the molecules in photoswitchable crystals ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, working with international partners, have uncovered surprising behavior in a specially engineered crystal. Composed of tantalum ...

Quasicrystals are orderly structures that never repeat. Scientists just showed they can exist in space and time.

For decades, cobalt has served as a benchmark ferromagnet. Its crystal structure and magnetic properties have been extensively documented. However, the new findings show that cobalt hosts a rich ...

Chinese scientists have pushed solid-state vacuum ultraviolet laser technology to a new milestone by ...

New research exposes the molecular switches that let some cancers shapeshift and reveals how they might finally be stopped. Certain cancers are extremely difficult to treat, and carcinomas are among ...

Mineral abundance isn’t unusual in Donghai. Liu may not even be the biggest operator on this block. Over the past few decades, the county has transformed from an unremarkable backwater into the ...

Move over cyclopentadiene anion—there’s a new five-membered aromatic ring in town, and this one is made of silicon. Two research teams working independently report the first examples of ...