Your science textbook likely told you that matter exists in four states. You know them as solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. For ...

Now, researchers using the first-ever quantum-mechanical simulations of these materials have uncovered why they exist: they are fundamentally stable, not fleeting accidents of rapid cooling. The ...

Scientists have discovered a new way that matter can exist—one that is different from the usual states of solid, liquid, gas ...

Once a wild theory, time crystals are now a lab-made reality. Born from equations and skepticism, these quantum structures ...

Interestingly, one way that phonons can travel through solid-state crystals bears a striking resemblance to the flow of fluids, in a phenomenon known as "hydrodynamic phonon transport." ...

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