Picture the smartphone in your pocket, the data centers powering artificial intelligence, or the wearable health monitors ...

Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have created the first time crystal that humans can actually see, using liquid crystals that swirl into never-ending patterns when illuminated by light ...

A new specimen holder gives scientists more control over ultra-cold temperatures, enabling the study of how materials acquire ...

The visible patterns produced by the time crystals could be used for data storage and anti-counterfeiting designs.

After more than 200 years, one of Benjamin Franklin’s most famous inventions, bifocal spectacles, could undergo a major ...

Encrypted text messages may finally reach iPhone users with iOS 26. Code in the beta version of iOS 26 reveals strings for RCS encryption. With encryption, texts between iOS and Android will be more ...

The photoalignment of liquid crystalline materials has been studied extensively over the past two and a half decades and has recently become of technological importance in the liquid crystal display ...

Scientists from the MIPT LPHI Center for Computational Physics, together with colleagues from the Institute of Physics and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the National Research ...

When it comes to dishwasher detergents, are you a pod person, a liquid fan, or a powder diehard? In an Instagram poll we posted, 71 percent of participants voted for pods as their go-to. Twenty ...

A Crystal Lake man is asking a judge to withdraw his guilty plea for stealing from a veterans group in McHenry as he also awaits federal sentencing in a separate $8 million Ponzi scheme. Alan J. Hanke ...

In the new COVID test, it is the binding of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein to a metallic substrate that triggers the ...