Samples of "trinitite" created during the world’s first nuclear bomb test in 1945 contain unique crystals never seen before.

Researchers have recently found a new way to summon useful structures in magnetic materials using light, heat, and electric fields. This new method, described in a new study published in Physical ...

The only well-exposed color image of the Trinity test. (Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) We don't always get to ...

Scientists observe a visible time crystal for the first time, revealing a phase of matter that repeats patterns through time.

Just when scientists thought they knew everything about crystals, a Northwestern University and University of Wisconsin-Madison collaboration has uncovered a hidden secret. Centrosymmetric crystals ...

A strange kind of matter that “ticks” forever without energy input has just taken a major leap toward real-world use. Known ...

In a process analogous to how solids melt into liquids, the electrons in many different metals form crystal-like patterns ...

Photonic time crystals, whose properties change periodically, promise significant enhancements in microwave engineering, optics, and photonics. Researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...

Physicists in Finland are the latest scientists to create “time crystals,” a newly discovered phase of matter that exists only at tiny atomic scales and extremely low temperatures but also seems to ...