TU Wien has detected strong quantum entanglement for the first time in a centimeter-sized crystal of a strange metal.

Diamond Hill Mine in Abbeville, South Carolina, turns the whole family into treasure hunters, and the crystals you find are ...

David Boyce and his class at Queenswood school in the UK are growing what they’re calling the world’s largest single crystal of copper sulfate. The crystal weighs around 3kg so far and has taken over ...

A rare mineral from a 1724 meteorite defies the rules of heat flow, acting like both a crystal and a glass. Thanks to AI and quantum physics, researchers uncovered its bizarre ability to maintain ...

Crystals and glasses have opposite heat-conduction properties, which play a pivotal role in a variety of technologies. These range from the miniaturization and efficiency of electronic devices to ...

In a first for the field, researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have reported a photopumped lasing from a buried dielectric ...

A groundbreaking study explores Ba-Si orthosilicate oxynitride-hydride (Ba3SiO5 xNyHz) as a sustainable catalyst for ammonia synthesis, offering a potential alternative to traditional transition metal ...

Look at the cubic pyrite crystals. It’s almost hard to believe something like that is natural. Image via Wiki Commons. Crystals are solid substances where atoms, molecules, or ions are packed in a ...

Composite materials that combine quantum dots and photonic crystals can produce some complex anti-counterfeiting patterns, which solves the problems of simple encoded information and low ...

Abstract: Through silicon via (TSV) is a core technology in 3-D integration. Interface failure is one of the most noted failure forms of TSV. The barrier layer Ta, which is between the media Cu and ...

Xiaomi introduced a new in-house protective glass for its latest flagship smartphone, the Xiaomi 14 Pro. Called Dragon Crystal Glass, the new material is claimed to be the hardest and most durable ...