A new study reveals that spontaneous emission, a key phenomenon in the interaction between light and atoms, manifests in a ...

The visible patterns produced by the time crystals could be used for data storage and anti-counterfeiting designs.

A time crystal is a form of matter that shows continuous, repeating patterns over time, much like how atoms in a normal ...

Researchers in Vienna have discovered something remarkable: crystals that don’t form in space, like diamonds or salt, but in ...

Nature has many rhythms: the seasons result from Earth's movement around the sun, the ticking of a pendulum clock results ...

Physicists have unveiled a new type of time crystal that is governed by quantum behavior that conflicts with classical models ...

In their study, Zhao and Smalyukh created a space–time crystal in the nematic phase of a liquid crystal. In this phase the crystal’s rod-like molecules align parallel to each other and also flow like ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: First theorized in 2012, time crystals are similar to ...