A flash of light traps this material in an excited state indefinitely, and new experiments reveal how it happens.

In 1891, examining a meteorite in Canyon Diablo, Arizona, scientists reported finding "hard particles" within it. Later, in ...

Quantum technology struggles with scaling up, as the special properties of quantum materials typically vanish in larger ...

Chinese scientists have successfully developed a high-quality “super diamond” in the laboratory, exhibiting a hardness far ...

Using a novel surface-sensitive spectroscopy method, scientists explored atomic vibrations in crystalline material surfaces near interfaces. The findings illuminate quantum behaviors that play ...

Once thought impossible, quasicrystals revealed a hidden order that challenges our understanding of materials. Their ...

Most natural and synthetic diamonds feature a cubic lattice structure but there are rare exceptions. Lonsdaleite, for example, is a type of diamond that was first ...

For the first time, researchers in China have synthetically produced a nearly pure hexagonal diamond, marking a significant ...

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

An AI algorithm was taught to produce the lightest and strongest possible geometric structure for a nanomaterial (depending ...

NWO Exact and Natural Sciences (ENW) has awarded a total of 17 project grants within the Open Competition ENW-M.

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