A deeper fundamental understanding of complex materials may now be possible, due to a new insight into how crystals form. A previously unknown mathematical relationship between the different ...

An unusual arrangement of particles has been discovered in the cells of chicken eyes. It’s the first time scientists have seen such a system in a biological system — one that allows materials to ...

(ISNS) -- Almost nothing is more obvious than the fact that time flows from the past, which we remember, toward the future, which we don’t. Scientists and philosophers call this the psychological ...

(Nanowerk News) Taking child's play with building blocks to a whole new level—the nanometer scale—scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have constructed 3D ...

The term 'microfabric' (geometric arrangements of particles) was first used in the late 1960s to study features of the soil that cannot be seen with the naked eye; which includes the orientation of ...

Researchers have solved an apparently overwhelming physics problem involving some truly huge numbers. In summary, the problem asks you to imagine that you have 128 tennis balls, and can arrange them ...