Quasicrystals are orderly structures that never repeat. Scientists just showed they can exist in space and time.

Imagine a "smart fluid" whose internal structure can be rearranged just by changing temperature. In a new study published in Matter, researchers report a way to overcome a long-standing limitation in ...

Scientists have long seen a puzzling pattern in tokamaks, the doughnut-shaped machines that could one day reliably generate electricity from fusing atoms. When plasma particles escape the core of the ...

In our 3D space, elementary particles neatly filter into either bosons or fermions. But in lower dimensions, that distinction ...

Our system is remarkable because it’s incredibly simple,” said paper author and physicist David Grier of New York University.

The suburbia of the Milky Way does not form a ball of matter with the center at its center. Rather, the mass around it is arranged in a wide, flattened form, which alters the sense of gravity back ...

White House officials and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer were scrambling Thursday morning to ink a deal that would punt final decisions on fiscal 2026 Homeland Security funding but let five ...

Scientists didn’t understand why independently oscillating microscopic particles suddenly begin moving in perfect sync when grouped together. Researchers showed that fluid-driven hydrodynamic ...

Rushing to get to work in the morning, we grab our coat, bag and keys and – invariably – steal a glance at the clock to check that we are running on time. The passing of time is so integral to our day ...

A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Honourable Abdulhakeem Adegoke Alawuje, has described the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as a coalition that lacks direction, unity, and a ...