A team of physicists from the University of Ottawa have developed a new theoretical model that shines new light on how ...

When an electron travels through a polar crystalline solid, its negative charge attracts the positively charged atomic cores, causing the surrounding crystal lattice to deform. The electron and ...

Environmentally friendly dissolution-based method reduces temperature of water by nearly 27 K in just 20 seconds ...

Quasicrystals are orderly structures that never repeat. Scientists just showed they can exist in space and time.

After accounting for Earth’s rotation, gravity is slightly weaker beneath Antarctica than anywhere else on the planet. That ...

This breathtaking clue about the architecture of consciousness supports a Nobel-Prize winner’s theory about how quantum physics works in your brain.

Perovskite solar cells have surged from laboratory curiosities to serious contenders against silicon in barely a decade, yet ...

“The theoretical framework we developed explains how quasiparticles emerge in systems with an extremely heavy impurity, ...

Controlled defects in single-layer graphene pinpoint a critical 20 nm spacing where quantum interference traps electrons and ...

Imagine a "smart fluid" whose internal structure can be rearranged just by changing temperature. In a new study published in Matter, researchers report a way to overcome a long-standing limitation in ...

Recipients of this year's Sloan Research Fellowships - prestigious, two-year fellowships awarded to some of the most promising early-career ...