#MaterialScience

An unusual crystal created by America’s first nuclear bomb test could help scientists understand a structure needed for quantum computers, solar power, and batteries.

Data centers require massive amounts of energy for cooling, but these copper cooling plates are optimally designed to reduce power demand.

Proof-of-concept tests found that the plastic did such a good job at eating itself apart, not even microplastics had a chance.

A good number of important scientific inquiries center on the physics of explosions. The new facility will help scientists explore how and why things go boom.

"This is one more example of how the everyday ordinary world is full of wonders, if we only choose to see carefully."

A stretchy, mid-level layer of nanodiamonds allows the typically hard, brittle crystal to bend, not break, under pressure.