Yale physicist Eduardo H. da Silva Neto led an experiment that supports the existence of a new type of superconductor.

Scientists have discovered a new way of creating superheavy elements by firing supercharged ion beams at dense atoms. The team believes this method could potentially help synthesize the hypothetical ...

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the understanding and application of the properties of matter. Materials scientists study the connections between the underlying ...

Meta is releasing a massive data set and models, called Open Materials 2024, that could help scientists use AI to discover new materials much faster. OMat24, as it's been dubbed, ...

For decades, scientists have looked for materials that could make superconductivity -- the lossless transmission of electricity -- possible at higher temperatures, such as room temperature. That would ...

In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes how ... understand and predict the behaviors of water-responsive materials—solid matter that can ... A team of researchers ...

As new technologies and artificial intelligence advance, the demand for efficient and high-performance semiconductors is ...

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) will be relying on tungsten as its plasma-facing material, but a new study explores whether other candidates could perform even better.

A new technique for growing these microscopic crystals, published this week in Science ... on the periodic table, Rabani said. These are called "II-VI" (two-six) materials. More promising ...

In a paper for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , Adam Denchfield and a team of UIC scientists proposed ...

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the ...

Researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Hebei University have optimized the nucleation process by regulating the interactions between the epitaxial layer and the substrate.