Scientists have shown that twisting a crystal at the nanoscale can turn it into a tiny, reversible diode, hinting at a new era of shape-engineered electronics.

Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and colleagues have developed a new way to fabricate ...

Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...

Record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle.

Chemists at UCLA are showing that some of organic chemistry’s most famous “rules” aren’t as unbreakable as once thought. By creating bizarre, cage-shaped molecules with warped double bonds—structures ...

A new set of simple equations can fast-track the search for metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), a Nobel-Prize-winning class of ...

Entangled atoms, separated in space, are giving scientists a powerful new way to measure the world with stunning precision.