They combined optical tweezers with metasurfaces to trap more than 1,000 atoms, with the potential to capture hundreds of ...

In normal crystals like salt or diamond, atoms are arranged in patterns that repeat over and over in a grid. However, imagine a crystal where atoms follow a set of rules, but never repeat—like a tiled ...

Quasicrystals are a curiosity: they are aperiodic, but still have long-range order. Thin films deposited on quasicrystalline surfaces may also take on quasicrystalline properties — and could be ripe ...

World’s First Nuclear Blast Left Behind a Mysterious Form of Matter — And Scientists Still Can’t Explain What It Is Sometimes, the most remarkable discoveries come from unexpected places. In one such ...