New research involving Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists shows that water can remain liquid in a metastable state when transitioning from liquid to a dense form of ice at higher ...

Recently, a team of scientists was able to detect metastable helium in the upper atmosphere of an exoplanet. This was quite an accomplishment considering it had never been done before. The formation ...

As part of a long-term research collaboration, researchers in the lab of Prof. Y. Shirley Meng at the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and visiting scholars from UC San Diego found ...

Illustration of the material’s transition, with time represented from left to right. A laser pulse (left) sends the material into disorder (middle). Out of this so-called soup phase emerges a highly ...

Controlling antiferromagnetic materials: Nuh Gedik pictured in the lab between Tianchuang Luo (left) and Alexander von Hoegen. (Courtesy: Adam Glanzman) Physicists in the US, Europe and Korea have ...

When using a latch or flip-flop in normal circumstances (i.e., when the device’s setup and hold times are not being violated), the outputs will respond to a latch enable or clock pulse within some ...

A dry material makes a great fire starter, and a soft material lends itself to a sweater. Batteries require materials that can store lots of energy, and microchips need components that can turn the ...

(Nanowerk News) A flash of light traps this material in an excited state indefinitely, and new experiments reveal how it happens. A dry material makes a great fire starter, and a soft material lends ...