For decades, scientists believed that lead-208, a "doubly magic" and highly stable atomic nucleus, was perfectly spherical.

Supersolids are a strange quantum state of matter that combines properties of solids and liquids. Now they've gotten even ...

A new technique in detector fabrication could change high-energy physics forever. By using additive manufacturing, ...

For the first time, researchers transformed light into a quantum crystalline structure to create a "supersolid" that's both solid and liquid at the same time. Here’s what that means, and why it's such ...

An international collaboration has shown that additive manufacturing offers a realistic way to build large-scale plastic scintillator detectors for particle physics experiments.

With properties of a superfluid but with a crystalline structure, supersolids have previously only been observed in ultracold ...

Researchers discover collisionless shock waves as cosmic engines accelerating subatomic particles in space to extreme speeds.

Light was turned into a quasiparticle that simultaneously behaved like a crystal and wave.

Italian researchers have turned light into a quantum ‘supersolid’, an achievement which they called “pretty awesome”.

To support the further advancement of the electronics industry, energy researchers have been trying to develop new battery ...

Researchers develop nanoscale 3D printing method to create biodegradable vaccine carriers with controlled release.