Researchers created a strange quantum crystal from a material found in smartphones—the first of its kind visible to the naked ...

Everything is born out of nothing. All you do is shine a light, and this whole world of time crystals emerges,” said University of Colorado Boulder physicist Ivan Smalyukh. In a field where most ...

In a bold step toward science fiction becoming “science, but with a hangover,” physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have created the first visible time crystal. A time crystal is ...

Nematic materials are made of elongated molecules that align in a preferred direction, but, like in a fluid, are spaced out irregularly. The best-known nematic materials are liquid crystals, which are ...