It’s not easy to surprise physicists with a phase change. Yet when Tom White first reviewed the data from a new experiment ...

The secret to how steel hardens and shape-memory alloys snap into place lies in rapid, atomic-scale shifts that scientists ...

Heating that lasted only trillionths of a second raised a gold sample’s temperature to 19,000 K without melting it, a study ...

Solar cells and computer chips need silicon layers that are as perfect as possible. Every imperfection in the crystalline ...

Increasing numerical studies showed that the simplest Hubbard model on the square lattice with strong repulsion may not ...