Most solid materials we rely on, from steel, to plastics and ceramics, are designed to have specific properties. Whether a ...

Scientists led by a physicist at the University of Oregon have taken a major step in solving an enduring mystery that we ...

A research team from Aarhus University, Denmark, has measured and explained the exceptionally low thermal conductivity of the crystalline material AgGaGe₃Se₈. Despite its ordered structure, the ...

A class of glass that cannot crystallize, even given infinite time, is forcing physicists to rethink some of the oldest ...

For a long time, it was thought that amorphous solids do not selectively absorb light because of their disordered atomic structure. A new study disproves this theory and shows that amorphous solids ...

Lasers, devices that emit intense beams of coherent light in specific directions, are widely used in research settings and are central components of various technologies, including optical clocks (i.e ...