A time crystal is a form of matter that shows continuous, repeating patterns over time, much like how atoms in a normal ...

“Everything is born out of nothing. All you do is shine a light, and this whole world of time crystals emerges,” said University of Colorado Boulder physicist Ivan Smalyukh. In a field where most ...

If you were to hold a grain of zircon in your hand, it would look like nothing special — just a tiny, sand-sized crystal, no ...

Researchers in Vienna have discovered something remarkable: crystals that don’t form in space, like diamonds or salt, but in ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: First theorized in 2012, time crystals are similar to normal crystals, but instead of their lattice of atoms repeating in a physical 3D space, they ...

A new study reveals that spontaneous emission, a key phenomenon in the interaction between light and atoms, manifests in a ...

Oxygen, the colorless and odorless gas that is essential to the survival of humans and other living organisms, is estimated ...