Chinese scientists have recently quantified the correlation between prehistoric human population fluctuations and climate ...

The La Niña pattern that has been influencing the global weather over the past year is rapidly weakening, with signals ...

From ancient coins to modern markets, gold has shaped money and value for centuries. Here's why, among all the elements, it has remained the world's store of value.

In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers achieved the first experimental observation of a time rondeau crystal—a novel phase of matter where long-range temporal order coexists with ...

A mixture of two types of pigment-producing cells undergoes diffusiophoretic transport to self-assemble into a hexagonal pattern. Credit: Siamak Mirfendereski and Ankur Gupta/CU Boulder A zebra’s ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have bedeviled physicists and chemists. Their atoms arrange ...

Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have bedeviled physicists and chemists. Their atoms arrange themselves into chains of pentagons, decagons and other shapes to ...

In 1982, quasicrystal structures were first recognized in a pattern that defied established crystallography rules. These structures showed that matter could be orderly yet lack the usual repeating ...

A team of international researchers has shown that four-dimensional structures can influence the mechanical and topological properties of quasiperiodic crystals. This finding confirms that ...

The physicochemical heterogeneity found on amorphous surfaces leads to a complex interaction of adsorbate molecules with topological and undercoordinated defects, which enhance the adsorption capacity ...

Active weather across the country on Monday and Tuesday has missed Chicagoland so far to the south and west of us. But that could change in the next couple of days… The Chicago area sits north of the ...