Gold has been a treasured material for various cultures for thousands of years. This enduring appeal comes from a combination ...

Before trinitite, the only known naturally formed quasicrystal came from meteorite fragments, likely produced during a violent asteroid collision in the early solar system. This tells us that ...

Using the second-nearest neighboring atoms to predict metallic glass stability can help researchers more accurately model the ...

As modern technologies shrink to the nanoscale, surfaces increasingly dictate how materials deform, yield, and fail. Yet ...