Superconductors promise loss-free electricity, but most only work at extreme cold. Hydrogen-rich materials changed that—yet their inner workings remained hidden because they only exist under enormous ...

Condensed-matter physics is the study of substances in their solid state. This includes the investigation of both crystalline solids in which the atoms are positioned on a repeating three-dimensional ...

Russia plans a nuclear power plant on the moon within a decade Russia plans to put a nuclear power plant on the moon in the next decade to supply its lunar space programme and a joint Russian-Chinese ...

IMAGE ABOVE: Contours from a heat map show temperature shifts in cubic boron arsenide. In the latest wrinkle to be discovered in cubic boron arsenide, the unusual material contradicts the traditional ...