It's an example of how surprising properties can spontaneously emerge in complex materials—a phenomenon scientists hope to harness for novel technologies
Findings show fundamental particles called muons behaving in a way that is not predicted by scientists' best theory, the Standard Model of particle physics
Astronomers suspect that the comet most likely never passed close to a star, making it an undisturbed relic of the cloud of gas and dust it formed from
Scientists at Washington State University's Institute for Shock Physics created hexagonal diamonds large enough to measure their stiffness using sound waves