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Six thousand eight hundred feet below the floor of an active nickel mine in northern Ontario, something has gone extremely cold. Not cold in the way of a walk-in freezer, or a liquid nitrogen tank, ...

(Corrects spelling of cryptography in headline) By Laurie Chen BEIJING, March 19 (Reuters) - China will likely develop ...

MoS2 monolayers doped across the periodic table show p-type, n-type, metallic, and magnetic behavior, providing building ...

Electrons are tiny and constantly in motion. How they behave in a crystal lattice determines key material properties: electrical conductivity, magnetism, or novel quantum effects. Anyone aiming to ...

When you think of glass, you probably picture something fragile and brittle, not a material built for high-stress electromechanical components. However, researchers at Germany's Saarland University ...

China plans to establish national standards for post-quantum cryptography within three years, emphasizing the strategic role of quantum technology. With the global push for secure algorithms against ...

Scientists have developed a powerful new computational method that could accelerate the search for next-generation materials capable of turning sunlight into useful chemical energy. The work focuses ...

Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder.

Physicists in China have uncovered new evidence that chiral phonons and magnons can interact strongly inside magnetic crystals. Using neutron spectroscopy, a team led by Song Bao at Nanjing University ...

Solid-state batteries could be safer and more energy-dense than today’s lithium-ion technology, but finding materials that allow ions to move quickly through solid electrolytes has been difficult.