Earth’s inner core has long challenged researchers because seismic waves do not move through it uniformly. Compressional ...

The effects of cycles of compression and relaxation during Earth’s early lifetime can be studied using a combination of fast ...

Typical idiomorphism of single crystal gemstones, such as hexagonal prismatic emeralds, octahedral diamonds, and rhombic dodecahedral garnets, is the thermodynamic equilibrium shape in which the sum ...

When scientists squeezed a drop of water between two diamonds to endure pressures tens of thousands of times higher than Earth’s atmosphere, something unexpected happened. The liquid solidified at ...

WASHINGTON — Cubic Defense is pursuing military customers for its flat-panel satellite communications terminal designed to operate across multiple orbits and networks. The San Diego-based military ...

Lyotropic liquid crystalline (LLC) nanoparticles have gained significant attention as drug delivery systems owing to their unique self-assembly properties, biocompatibility, and ability to encapsulate ...

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When high-velocity asteroids land on Earth, they can form a meteor impact crater. Such collisions have occurred throughout Earth's history and still occur on other planetary bodies today. While most ...

Among transition metal nitrides, tungsten nitrides possess unique and/or superior chemical, mechanical, and thermal properties. Preparation of these nitrides, however, is challenging because the ...

ABSTRACT: Molar binding energy of the boron nitride single-walled zigzag and armchair nanotubes is calculated within the qua-si-classical approach. We find that, in the range of ultra small radii, the ...

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First identified in 1967, lonsdaleite is the hardest naturally-occuring mineral ever discovered—yes, it’s even harder than diamonds. Lonsdaleite, however, has only been found in meteorites, suggesting ...