Scientists have just discovered an incredible superpower hidden away in the tissues of the fern Blechnum orientale, a plant ...

In January, a team led by Jim Schuck, professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia Engineering, developed a method for ...

A time crystal that beats to the rhythm of both order and chaos has revealed a new way in which matter can keep time.

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Physicists in Finland are the latest scientists to create “time crystals,” a newly discovered phase of matter that exists only at tiny atomic scales and extremely low temperatures but also seems to ...

Mislabeled, lab-grown, and made from plastic—fakes abound in the crystals industry. Who’s going to do anything about it? By Maddie Stone Published Sep 12, 2023 9:00 AM EDT Get the Popular Science ...

Try to bend an icicle and it’ll snap in two. With its tendency to crack into shards, ice’s reputation for being stiff and brittle seems well-established. But thin, pristine threads of ice are bendy ...