Such unusual structures have different properties and are key to developing next-generation materials applicable to not only superconductors, but also microelectronics, batteries, magnets and more.

A new chip-making technique exploits a material's crystal structure to create nanoscale patterns at room temperature directly ...

Researchers engineered “gyromorphs,” a new type of metamaterial that combines liquid-like randomness with large-scale structural patterns to block light from every direction. This innovation solves ...

What’s a major challenge to making next-generation fission and fusion sources of electricity work economically in the 2030s? It’s to ensure that the advanced materials selected for the reactors’ ...

The robotic line cooks were deep in their recipe, toiling away in a room tightly packed with equipment. In one corner, an articulated arm selected and mixed ingredients, while another slid back and ...

One example of geometric frustration is how a pentagon cannot neatly tile the plane without gaps. Researchers at the University of Michigan are showing how this frustration gives rise to complexity in ...

Startups flush with cash are building AI-assisted laboratories to find materials far faster and more cheaply, but are still waiting for their ChatGPT moment. The microwave-size instrument at Lila ...