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Duplicates of crystal structures are flooding databases, implicating repositories hosting organic, inorganic, and computer-generated crystals. The issue raises questions about curation practices at ...

Stacks of graphene, carefully twisted, gain a superpower: They become superconductors. Now scientists have new evidence that this “magic-angle” graphene is a member of a truly strange class of ...

The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth's atmosphere. As a result of that intense pressure, materials can adopt unexpected structures and properties.

Cryo-electron microscopy confirms that controlled alignment of Photosystem I on graphene boosts electron flow and durability in biohybrid photoanodes, linking molecular order to improved solar energy ...

The following footage depicts a deserted wasteland where there is little vegetation, trees, or water. Soviet soldiers seem to be preparing a nuclear detonation in the middle of nowhere. Nothing ...

Ultra-uniform nanogratings of sub-50-nm periods and near-10-nm groove widths on HOPG can be stably and efficiently fabricated by high-NA focused femtosecond laser irradiation under water immersion.

A team of engineers at North Carolina State University has designed a polymer “Chinese lantern” that can rapidly snap into multiple stable 3D shapes—including a lantern, a spinning top, and more—by ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have bedeviled physicists and chemists. Their atoms arrange ...

On the left is an artistic depiction of a twisted double layer forming a moiré pattern created by overlapping 2D sheets; each layer’s structure is shown separately on the right. Researchers with the ...