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

Simply put, molar mass is the mass of one mole of a substance. A mole is a unit for counting particles in chemistry, typically measured in terms of Avogadro’s number, which is 6.022 x 10^23 particles ...

A single speck of light—captured inside a lab at Oxford—turned the abstract into the tangible. It didn’t just win a prize; it ...

Making electrons flow like a liquid is difficult, but inside graphene researchers forced them to move so fast that they ...

So how do you get an electron to float on top of helium? To find out, Ars spoke with Johannes Pollanen, the chief scientific officer of EeroQ, the company that accomplished the new work. He said that ...

Scientists at OIST have, for the first time, directly tracked the elusive “dark excitons” inside atomically thin materials.

In a remarkable leap for quantum physics, researchers in Japan have uncovered how weak magnetic fields can reverse tiny ...

More than 50 years after the Apollo 17 Moon rocks returned to Earth, researchers are still uncovered surprising new details ...

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

The discovery could significantly reduce the production costs of fuels, chemicals, and materials. A research team from the ...

Neutron stars can have a resounding impact around the universe. Scientists recently announced the first detection of gravitational waves created by two neutron stars smashing into each other. Neutron ...