New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

An unknot (also known as the trivial knot) can be drawn with any number of crossings. Any possible manipulation of a knot ...

A layered graphene and chromium oxychloride device functions as a broadband optical synapse, detecting visible to deep ...

Sealed Apollo 17 samples analyzed with new techniques reveal that the Moon’s interior contains sulfur isotopes unlike those ...

Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the ...

In nature, the behavior of systems—whether large or small—is always governed by a few fundamental principles. For instance, ...

Metal-organic frameworks can store huge amounts of gas in a tiny space—enabling advances that could help humans fight climate ...

The finding offers tantalizing clues in the ongoing quest to piece together the origins of ORCs—mysterious, ring-shaped radio ...

In a remarkable leap for quantum physics, researchers in Japan have uncovered how weak magnetic fields can reverse tiny ...

Gold, uranium, and other heavy elements on Earth did not form here. They were born in the violent deaths of massive stars and the collisions of neutron stars, traveling across the galaxy before ...

A circular composition divided into four sections, each representing earth, fire, water, and air with vibrant painterly ...

To explain the scale of their achievement, Hans Ellegren, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, told ...