New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

The future of computing lies in the surprising world of quantum physics, where the rules are much different from the ones ...

Scientists solve a 15-year Mars mystery, confirming ferric hydroxysulfate formed by volcanic and hydrothermal heating across ...

In this era of instant communication and rising cyber attacks, keeping things secret has never been harder. Quantum computers ...

Scientists are closer to creating a quantum spin liquid, a state where electron spins stay dynamic even at near absolute zero ...

From composition to performance, two recent studies show how additively manufactured steels measure up to their ...

In two recent studies, researchers at the US Department of Energy (DoE)’s Argonne National Laboratory used X-ray diffraction ...

Argonne scientists have come closer to creating a quantum spin liquid, a rare state of matter that could help enable fault-tolerant quantum computers. They studied a honeycomb-structured material ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

USING a specially constructed rectifier giving 1,100 volts and a Taylor T 55 valve with amphenol bases and special inductances, frequencies up to 100 megacycles per second have been produced. A ...

The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper folding.

Scientists at TU Wien (Vienna) report that an exotic quantum phenomenon appears under conditions where it would not normally ...