Structure determination of amorphous materials remains challenging, owing to the disorder inherent to these materials. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) powder crystallography is a powerful method to ...

$$\frac{V\left(T\right)-{V}_{0}}{{V}_{0}}=3{\alpha }_{{{{{\rm{l}}}}}\left(T-{T}_{0}\right),$$ Understanding the structure of metallic glasses is difficult due to ...

In materials science, particularly in the study of glasses, the intermediate range order (IRO) is one of the most intriguing research areas owing to its significant influence over the physical ...

Thermoelectric materials convert heat to electricity and vice versa, and their atomic structures are closely related to how well they perform. Now researchers have discovered how to change the atomic ...

Optical atomic clocks are the most accurate measuring instruments ever built and are becoming key tools for basic and applied research, for example to test the constancy of natural constants or for ...

Nucleons, which include protons and neutrons, are the composite particles that make up atomic nuclei. While these particles have been widely studied in the past, their internal structure has not yet ...

How nanoscale control changed materials science, from atomic-level design in coatings and quantum materials to bio-inspired ...

Time feels familiar. It marks every moment of daily life, from the ticking of a wall clock to the changing numbers on a ...

Physicists working on the MIGDAL experiment reported the first direct evidence of the Migdal effect in January 2026, ...