crystals

$An image of the electron diffraction pattern of an icosahedral Zn-Mg-Ho quasicrystal. Credit: Jgmoxness/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0$

The Story of a Once-Unusual Material With a Still-Unusual Property

Lakshmi Supriya 08/05/2018

Quasicrystal superconductors are real. Let the experiments begin!

Physicists speculate that amorphous topological insulators will be amenable to the same kind of applications that crystalline ones are. Glasses, a tube of which is pictured, are amorphous. Credit: 422737/pixabay

Happy Surprise: IISc Scientists Widen Scope to Find Materials With Odd, but Coveted, Traits

Vasudevan Mukunth 13/06/2017

Two physicists have obtained theoretical evidence of the existence...

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What Are Time Crystals? And What Have Two New Experiments Found About Them?

Vasudevan Mukunth 09/03/2017

From Franck Wilczek's provocative proposal in 2012 to two...

A 99.99% pure bismuth crystal. The metal has been found to become a superconductor at a higher temperature than thought. Credit: maticulous/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Indian Finding Poses New Challenge to Nobel-Winning Theory About Superconductors

Vasudevan Mukunth 02/12/2016

New experiment at TIFR in Mumbai disproves a prediction...