An unexpected discovery in a Harvard lab has led to a breakthrough insight into choosing an unconventional material, silica, ...

A new material makes lithium batteries longer-lasting and more efficient—great news for electric cars and clean energy storage.

These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to ...

Discover Tokyo Electron’s new semiconductor etching method for faster, greener, and precise chip production. Read more ...

One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists to understand for the first time how and why certain materials conduct ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

Researchers have created a topological insulator that keeps its quantum properties stable even at higher temperatures, overcoming a key limit of earlier materials. (Nanowerk News) A topological ...

New works presents a unified theoretical framework to describe particles and waves in non-Hermitian systems, potentially leading to major advancements in condensed matter physics Topological structure ...

Knowledge of the electronic structure of amorphous and liquid silica at high pressures is essential to understanding their complex properties ranging from silica melt in magma to silica glass in ...

A multi-institutional research team has clarified the energy levels of color centers at the SiO2/SiC interface, paving the way toward the development of scalable quantum technologies that use them as ...

Osaka, Japan – Many next-generation quantum devices rely on single-photon emitters based on optically active defects in solids, known as color centers. Understanding their properties is fundamental to ...