Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Currently, diamond is regarded to be one of the hardest and most ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Today, our solar system is fairly stable. There are eight planets ...

Ever since Curie conjectured on 'the symmetry in physical phenomena, symmetry of an electric field and a magnetic field,' it has long been a dream for material scientists to search for this rather ...

Researchers have used a diamond sheet and salt film to make hexagonal salt crystals. Sodium chloride is massively common in our universe, but still full of surprises. The scientists used a ...

(Nanowerk News) A research team led by Prof. FU Qiang from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators reported the successful epitaxial ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. If you've ever heard someone referred to as a "special little snowflake ...

Researchers in Europe have found a way to make silicon-germanium (SiGe) alloys emit light efficiently, a breakthrough that has the potential to revolutionize integrated silicon photonics. In that ...

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral is at the Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials, Institute of Materials and at the Institute of Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.