Yale physicists have uncovered hints of a time crystal — a form of matter that “ticks” when exposed to an electromagnetic pulse — in the last place they expected: a crystal you might find in a child’s ...

Physicists have spotted signatures of a time crystal in a material that might be found in a child’s toy. So-called time crystals are those in which the atoms follow a repeating pattern in time, rather ...

In 2012, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Frank Wilczek proposed the existence of a new type of crystal. While most crystals have a structure that repeats in two or three dimensions, Wilczek imagined a ...