Summer vacation is a time for fun and play, but can also be a time for learning. Parents have the added benefit of teaching ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

For over two decades, physicists have been working toward implementing quantum light storage—also known as quantum memory—in ...

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Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself ...

The graphite found in your favorite pencil could have instead been the diamond your mother always wears. What made the ...

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

The graphite found in your favorite pencil could have instead been the diamond your mother always wears. What made the ...

The influence of the counteranion on the ability of the mesogenic cation 1-methyl-3-dodecyl-triazolium to form mesophases is explored. To that avail, salts of the cation with anions of different size, ...

Chiral liquid crystals form a number of modulated structures with unusual properties. Here we report experimental studies of the two-dimensional structure forming near the cholesteric-isotropic phase ...