Take a moment to look at the screen you are reading this on. Whether it is a phone or a monitor, you are staring through a ...

Scientists have discovered that an established property of physics can be broken in glass, but only under certain conditions. Silicate glass is something that we interact with on a regular basis, most ...

A scientist gives an answer to a long-standing question in theoretical glass physics: what does it mean to be an order parameter for an inherently out-of-equilibrium system? Starting from first ...

A fundamental link between two counterintuitive phenomena in spin glasses—reentrance and temperature chaos—has been mathematically proven for the first time. By extending the Edwards–Anderson model to ...

Humans are generating more data than ever before. While much of these data do not need to be stored long-term, some – such as ...

Yale scientists have shown how to enhance the lifetime of sound waves traveling through glass—the material at the heart of fiber optic technologies. The discovery will be described in the January ...

Sometimes in science, the most mundane phenomena embody the deepest mysteries. For example, glass is made by cooling a liquid rapidly until it solidifies. But when and how does that change occur? When ...

At the British Museum in London, there is a small turquoise-blue jug, originating from Egypt under the reign of the pharaoh Thutmose III. About the size of a salt shaker, the pretty opaque object was ...

When I am already getting late for my morning lecture, here at IIT Kanpur where I teach, that is the exact moment my spectacles choose to play hide-and-seek with me. Not in the kitchen nor near the ...

How state-of-art quantum simulations with trapped ions can be used to tackle complex computational problems. One of the most striking discoveries of quantum information theory is the existence of ...