Researchers have taken a major step forward in studying time crystals—exotic materials with unusual, ...

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Researchers have created a record-breaking "time crystal"—a bizarre phenomenon that sounds as if it came straight out of science fiction. A team from Germany's Technical University of Dortmund ...

Mucic acid crystals grown from a water-based solution achieved a record-breaking stiffness for an organic crystal. Stiffness is often described as the measure of resistance to deformation when a ...

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