Condensed-matter physics and materials science have a silo problem. Although researchers in these fields have access to vast amounts of data – from experimental records of crystal structures and ...

One of the discoveries that fundamentally distinguished the emerging field of quantum physics from classical physics was the observation that matter behaves differently at the smallest scales. A key ...

The same phenomenon was later confirmed for neutrons, helium atoms, and even large molecules, making matter-wave diffraction ...

For the first time, researchers from Tokyo University of Science have observed wave-like interference patterns from ...

Charge density waves (CDWs) are ordered, crystal-like patterns in the arrangement of electrons that spontaneously form inside ...

For over a century, light has both helped and limited our view of the ...

This cosmic question mark, seen in 2024, is courtesy of galaxy cluster MACS-J0417.5-1154, which is so massive that it is ...

Most magnets are predictable. Cool them down, and their tiny magnetic moments snap into ...

Water doesn’t behave the same way in a glass as it does as ice in your freezer. When water is heated to several thousand ...

By combining two fundamentally different microscopy techniques, researchers can now measure the optical properties of a ...

Electronic order in quantum materials often emerges not uniformly, but through subtle and complex patterns that vary from ...