New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, patterns.

The polar vortex is making a return to the forecast, but the counterintuitive weather feature is nothing to fear.

Imagine zooming into matter at the quantum scale, where tiny particles can interact in more than a trillion configurations at once.

A hundred years before the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration released the first image of a black hole in 2019—located at the heart of the galaxy M87—astronomer Heber Curtis had already discovered ...