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What Is Carbon? Life's Most Crucial Element, Explained
Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most ...
Greetings from the fourth dimension: Scientists glimpse 4D crystal structure using surface wave patterns
Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him the 2011 ...
This “Impossible” Crystal Is Changing What We Know About Reality
Once thought impossible, quasicrystals revealed a hidden order that challenges our understanding of materials. Their ...
Researchers develop first room temperature holmium-doped yttrium lithium fluoride thin disk laser
In a study published in Optics Express, a research group led by Prof. Fu Yuxi from Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision ...
Scientists engineer ultra-hard synthetic diamond from graphite
Most natural and synthetic diamonds feature a cubic lattice structure but there are rare exceptions. Lonsdaleite, for example, is a type of diamond that was first ...