Since the crystal lattices of the two layers are no longer exactly on top of each other, a kind of beating effect occurs: just as two sound waves with slightly different frequencies lead to a slow ...

A team of researchers has developed a novel method for using cholesteric liquid crystals in optical microcavities. The ...

A new method in electron microscopy enables sub-20-picometer targeting of individual atoms without prior exposure, opening ...

Diamonds might be forever but that doesn't stop them being bought and sold. One stone thought to have once belonged to Marie ...

University at Buffalo researcher Viviana Monje and colleagues awarded $1.2 million grant to study how popular aquarium fish ...

The most famous packing problem concerns spheres. In 1611, the astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed that the densest way to ...

Scientists have observed yet another type of magnetism for the first time within a lab-made crystal, promising to drive ...

A phase change in post-perovskite materials at the so-called D” discontinuity is also evidence for long-predicted slow, convective flows in the mantle itself ...

Scientists reveal that earthquakes generate electricity in quartz, explaining how enormous gold nuggets grow in deep rock ...

Researchers successfully freeze light into a supersolid, a groundbreaking discovery with potential applications in quantum computing and energy transport.

AlGaN strain strategies For AlGaN UV LEDs, which are typically grown on AlN templates, AlGaN strain-modulation strategies aim to mitigate the compressive stress. This can be realised by adjusting the ...

The result was surprising: Instead of spinning smoothly like a hurricane or a solid sphere, the solitons developed an internal lattice of microscopic vortices ... of microscopic tornadoes arranged in ...