New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, patterns.

Researchers in Vienna have discovered something remarkable: crystals that don’t form in space, like diamonds or salt, but in time itself. Instead of atoms arranging neatly into repeating patterns, ...

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Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg have discovered a striking ...

Scientists from the University of Tokyo have found a groundbreaking new approach to synthesize diamonds that offers ...

Researchers in Konstanz discovered a way to manipulate materials with light by exciting magnon pairs, reshaping their ...

There is no actual urine in Dirty Looks, an exhibition currently on view at the Barbican in London. It’s simulated: a pair of ...

It is one of the Premier League’s most remarkable records, but also one of the most unheralded. Crystal Palace are now 17 games unbeaten in all competitions after Saturday’s 2-1 win at West Ham United ...

Shoshana Bean, Sandra Bernhard, Christopher Cross, Ben Platt and Marisha Wallace all performed for a fabulously costumed ...

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“Big Kiss, Bye Bye” is a portrait of frustrated intimacy—and the ungovernable force of a woman’s mind.