An international team of researchers has systematically measured the β-decay half-lives of 40 nuclei near calcium-54, ...

The 20th century was marked by the discovery of exotic states of matter. First, liquid helium was observed to flow without friction at extremely low temperatures, a phase now known as superfluid. Soon ...

For the first time ICFO and UAB researchers have directly imaged a spin-orbit-coupled supersolid. The team has observed quantum fluids of atoms ...

Human history is often told through kings, empires and machines, but a single reactive metal quietly underpins much of that ...

Physicists have been chasing quantum spin liquids for decades, hunting for materials where magnetic moments refuse to freeze ...

These chemical oddities may explain why Earth seems to be deficient in certain elements — and could prove useful in catalysts ...

Delivering a lecture in 1959, theoretical physicist, Richard Feynman, wondered out loud: “What would the properties of materials be if we could really arrange the atoms the way we want them?” The ...

When materials become just one atom thick, melting no longer follows the familiar rules. Instead of jumping straight from solid to liquid, an unusual in-between state emerges, where atomic positions ...

The Budget 2026 changes overhaul customs duty structures by moving rates into the tariff and pruning exemptions. The key ...

Primordial black holes could rewrite our understanding of dark matter and the early universe. A record-breaking detection at ...