During construction work on a stormwater overflow basin in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, archaeologists have unearthed a remarkably preserved 2,400-year-old Iron Age structure along the banks of the Main ...

A new chip-making technique exploits a material's crystal structure to create nanoscale patterns at room temperature directly onto hard materials used in devices, including silica. The method could ...

Gold doesn’t tarnish like similar metals do. A new paper says that the key is the intricate “herringbone” pattern of its ...

Within a crystal's atomic structure, tiny atomic-scale flaws will naturally occur where electrons can become trapped. These defects have emerged as one of the leading platforms for quantum information ...

Every text message, photograph, and saved file still comes down to a simple bargain: information is stored as either 0 or 1.

Eighty years after the world's first nuclear explosion, scientists found two rare crystal structures inside a fragment of ...

Before trinitite, the only known naturally formed quasicrystal came from meteorite fragments, likely produced during a ...

An unusual crystal created by America’s first nuclear bomb test could help scientists understand a structure needed for ...

The Trinity bomb test left behind a unique form of matter, and now, scientists have discovered a new chemical structure ...

Rowan University research explores growing pharmaceutical crystals aboard the International Space Station, using microgravity ...

The erudite science of solid-state physics can predict from theory how strong a metallic crystal should be if all its atoms were arranged in a perfect, regular pattern. The figure is usually so high ...