High-entropy ceramics can be transformative for several applications, but the development of this class of materials is limited by costly and time-consuming experimental processes. The disordered ...

WHAT is consciousness? This is arguably the biggest remaining mystery of the human brain. No wonder it is known as “the hard problem”. We can’t even agree whether consciousness is one thing or a ...

Physicists have upended a foundational law of materials science by heating gold to over 19,000°C — more than 14 times its melting point — while it remained perfectly solid. The study, published in ...