A team of chemists at the University of Iowa has developed a light-activated crystal ...
An unusual crystal created by America’s first nuclear bomb test could help scientists understand a structure needed for ...
“Extreme, transient conditions produced by nuclear detonations can generate solid-state phases inaccessible to conventional ...
The only well-exposed color image of the Trinity test. (Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) We don't always get to ...
A CRYSTAL which was created during the world’s first nuclear blast has been discovered – and experts claim it shouldn’t even ...
Before trinitite, the only known naturally formed quasicrystal came from meteorite fragments, likely produced during a ...
Scientists have succeeded in observing the hidden structure of PMN-PT crystals used in ultrasound, revolutionizing modern ...
In 1982, materials scientist Dan Shechtman observed an unusual tenfold symmetry in an aluminum-manganese alloy, defying the ...
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated, for the first time, a single quantum of vibrational energy interacting with a single ...
What do cars, bridges and airplanes have in common? They are all exposed to the open air most of the time and are subjected to the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Airplanes are particularly ...