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

An unknot (also known as the trivial knot) can be drawn with any number of crossings. Any possible manipulation of a knot ...

When astronauts returned from NASA's final Apollo moon mission in 1972, some of the samples they collected were sealed and ...

A layered graphene and chromium oxychloride device functions as a broadband optical synapse, detecting visible to deep ...

Metal-organic frameworks can store huge amounts of gas in a tiny space—enabling advances that could help humans fight climate ...

Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the ...

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The finding offers tantalizing clues in the ongoing quest to piece together the origins of ORCs—mysterious, ring-shaped radio ...

Gold, uranium, and other heavy elements on Earth did not form here. They were born in the violent deaths of massive stars and the collisions of neutron stars, traveling across the galaxy before ...

A circular composition divided into four sections, each representing earth, fire, water, and air with vibrant painterly ...