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For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that the properties of the perovskite family of materials can be used to create so-called quantum bits. The findings, published in the journal Nature ...

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Chimpanzees consistently choose crystals over ordinary rocks, suggesting a curiosity that may echo early humans.

Illustrating showing Thomas Edison holding graphene on the left and a man with safety goggles holding a large blue crystal on the right Crystal craze: Fortuitous experiments led to graphene in a ...

The researchers were hoping to understand whether our own species' long documented appreciation (bordering on obsession) with crystals ...

Scientists still have many questions about the earliest years of our planet. Earth formed about 4.55 billion years ago, but almost no rocks from that time have survived. Without those ancient rocks, ...

Researchers at Utrecht University have quantitatively mapped the three-dimensional structure of photonic supraparticles for the first time. Supraparticles are microscopic spheres composed of thousands ...

Aden Kahr Humans have long been fascinated by crystals. Archaeological evidence suggests our ancestors have treasured small quartz and calcite stones for at least 780,000 years, often bringing them ...

They gave quartz, calcite and other types of crystals to chimpanzees in a rehabilitation center. The apes responded with great interest, and the researchers ended up needing to trade large amounts of ...

The standard story of the origin of our solar system has gone like this: 4.6 billion years ago, a giant cloud of dust hung frozen in space. Then the explosion of a nearby star caused part of that dust ...