Water doesn’t behave the same way in a glass as it does as ice in your freezer. When water is heated to several thousand ...

In this guest blog, Karen McNulty Walsh of Brookhaven National Laboratory explains how Michigan Technological University ...

Technical University of Braunschweig, and the University of Delaware achieved new insight into the inner structure of the ...

For years, physicists have mapped the stability of atomic nuclei with remarkable confidence. The periodic table, with its ...

Shape memory alloys are exotic materials that can be deformed at room temperature and return to their "remembered," ...

At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...

Florida State University scientists have engineered a new crystal that forces atomic magnets to swirl into complex, repeating ...

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers linked atomic-scale features to efficient heat-to-electricity conversion, offering ...

Plans to deliver the first-ever precision measurements of some of the rarest and most unstable atomic nuclei could reshape our understanding of ...

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Three years ago, Patagonia’s founder Yvon Chouinard made an unprecedented move: he and his family gave away the company. Instead of selling the multibillion-dollar retailer or taking it public, they ...