Around 5,000 years ago, people in what is now Iran began turning dull stone into shining metal. By heating copper ore until ...

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What is the nature of dark matter? A new experiment led by Columbia University physics professors aims to find out.

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Ocean Optics reports on how spectroscopy revolutionizes research by utilizing light to analyze materials, improving accuracy ...

New method identifies altermagnets by signatures from circularly polarized light, validated in MnTe, speeding discovery for ...

Altermagnets are a newly recognized class of antiferromagnets whose magnetic structure behaves very differently from what is found in conventional ...

But it always amazes me how you can get so much information from something so tiny.’ Today, Hatcher’s work primarily focuses ...

Earth’s inner core has long puzzled scientists because seismic waves move through it unevenly. Compressional waves from ...

X-ray diffraction (XRD) is a powerful non-destructive analytical technique used to evaluate crystalline materials and determine their structural properties. As one of the most widely used ...