If you dissolve sugar in hot water and then cool it down, you'll see pure sugar crystals form while impurities stay in the ...

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 ...

KARLSRUHE, Germany — In a breakthrough that brings us closer to next-generation optical technologies, researchers have ...

Mesmerizing videos offer a new look at the ways crystals form. The real-time clips, described March 30 in Nature Nanotechnology, show closeup views of microscopic gold particles tumbling, sliding and ...