Not quite crystals and not quite a glass, quasicrystals are an oddity whose properties are not well understood – but now we ...

A material that emits less energy than it absorbs has the potential to save some of the sunlight wasted by solar collectors.

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have developed a tunable system that paves the way for ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

Quantum tunnelling — when a particle skips through a barrier that classical physics would forbid — happens faster when objects have less energy, find physicists who worked out a way to probe photons ...

Why do some changes in nature unfold gradually, while others occur in the blink of an eye? Rust forming on metal is a slow, ...

Mehdi Kabir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in Alfred University’s Inamori School of Engineering, has been named recipient of the Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Award for 2025.