Water ice is a far more complex substance than we might assume. Scientists have now created an exotic new form of ice in the ...

An international team led by physicists at Penn State and Columbia University has developed a novel approach to maintain ...

A study finds that adding controlled disorder to mechanical metamaterials more than doubles toughness, making them more crack ...

Researchers have found that adding just the right amount of disorder to the structure of certain materials can make them more than twice as resistant to cracking.

Is it possible to tile a surface with a single shape in such a way that the pattern never repeats itself? In 2022, a mathematical solution to this 'Einstein problem' was discovered for the first time.

Experiments on battery electrodes and fuel cell catalysts while they're being used - operando spectroscopy - can ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most ...