The Unexpected Material That Could Build Our First Mars Colony
Scientists are finding ways to turn Martian dirt into usable metals. This breakthrough could make it possible to…
Why Is Ice Slippery? New Study Overturns 200-Year-Old Physics Theory
It isn’t pressure or friction that makes ice slippery, but hidden forces at the molecular level. New findings…
Chemists cram record nine metals into trendy 2D material
Chemists have doubled the members of a family of buzzy 2D materials, and even jammed a record nine…
Space-time crystals from particle-like topological solitons
Chaikin, P. M. & Lubensky, T. C. Principles of Condensed Matter Physics (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000). Yeh, P.…
The expanding world of topological ferroelectrics
In this issue we present three papers on the topological properties or structure of ferroelectrics, which are interlinked.…
Researchers Accidentally Create Unprecedented New Gold Compound
Illustration of intense pulses from an X-ray free-electron laser (left) heating compressed samples of hydrocarbons to extreme conditions,…
Competition between excitonic insulators and quantum Hall states in correlated electron–hole bilayers
Zeng, Y. & MacDonald, A. H. Electrically controlled two-dimensional electron-hole fluids. Phys. Rev. B 102, 085154 (2020). CAS …
Scientists Create Liquid Carbon in the Lab for the First Time
Researchers have been able to measure liquid carbon experimentally for the first time. They combined a high-power laser…
Quantum oscillations in a dipolar excitonic insulator
Li, G. et al. Two-dimensional Fermi surfaces in Kondo insulator SmB6. Science 346, 1208–1212 (2014). PubMed CAS Google…
Scientists Discover Revolutionary New Class of Materials: “Intercrystals”
An intercrystal formed by overlaying twisted graphene on hexagonal boron nitride. Credit: Andrei Lab/Rutgers University “Intercrystals” could pave…
Transferable dispersion-aware machine learning interatomic potentials for multilayer transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures
Data generation and neural network training To develop a neural network potential with DFT accuracy in energy and…
A fully-integrated flexible in-sensor computing circuit based on gel-gated organic electrochemical transistors
Design of the fully integrated flexible in-sensor computing circuit Figure 1 illustrates the design of an in-sensor computing…