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From vibranium to unobtainium: The periodic table of made-up stuff
Science fiction has always needed materials that don't exist. How else do you explain a lightsaber, power a warp drive, or make a superhero's shield indestructible? Over a century of storytelling has ...
For much of my career, I have been fascinated by the ways in which materials behave when we reduce their dimensions to the ...
Artificial intelligence is increasingly used to integrate and analyze multiple types of data formats, such as text, images, ...
Researchers have discovered how to design and place single-photon sources at the atomic scale inside ultrathin 2D materials, ...
Using the XRISM space telescope, scientists spotted faint emissions of the elements in remnants of the Cassiopeia A supernova ...
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