The red trinitite sample that contained the quasicrystal. It was formed in the aftermath of the first nuclear detonation in 1945—the famous Trinity Test at the Alamorgordo Bombing Range in New ...

As a result, a quasicrystal's atoms can be arranged in ways that are not commonly found in crystals, such as the shape of a 20-sided icosahedron with the symmetry of a soccer ball. The concept of ...

Stem cell tech simulates ALS, quantum tools decode quasicrystals, and cancer exploits a human mutation—three breakthroughs ...

STUNNED scientists have discovered a new ‘quasicrystal’ that formed during the first nuclear bomb test in 1945. The Trinity test may have occurred over 75 years ago but researchers have… ...

Quasicrystals are bizarre, rare, mysterious materials blending mathematical order and irregularity. A new, unexpected material halfway between a regular crystal and a quasicrystal may help reveal ...

A predicted quasicrystal is based on the ‘einstein’ tile known as the hat. The theoretical material is similar to graphene, but it isn’t a regular crystal ...

The quasicrystal within the rock is a known type, Al 63 Cu 24 Fe 13, first synthesized in a lab in 1987.However, if the Russian rock is as similar to a chondrite meteorite as its composition ...

The new form of matter that the team propose should have a non-periodic atomic structure, like a quasicrystal, while also being able to flow without friction, like a superfluid, ...

Two years after identifying the Russian rock's unusual composition, a team of scientists thinks it has nailed down its otherworldly origin.

Now Yaacov Kraus, Oded Zilberberg and colleagues at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science have shown that a similar 2D topological effect can be seen in how light propagates in a 1D quasicrystal – ...

“However, at 15% aluminium, the alloy transformed into a quasicrystal, and the critical temperature plummeted to about 0.05 K,” says Kamiya. Dramatic jump. At 0.05 K, the specific heat of the ...

After being shaken for about a week, thousands of millimetre-sized metal beads arranged themselves into an exotic structure called a quasicrystal – and it was the biggest one yet.