When materials become just one atom thick, melting no longer follows the familiar rules. Instead of jumping straight from ...

These newly discovered spinning crystals twist, break, and heal themselves, revealing a strange new side of solid matter.

A team of researchers at New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi discovered a new ...

Scientists have shown that twisting a crystal at the nanoscale can turn it into a tiny, reversible diode, hinting at a new era of shape-engineered electronics.

Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline ...