NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered high-purity quartz crystals on Mars, a discovery that could reshape the search for ancient life on the Red Planet. The crystals, along with other minerals such ...

Physicists have long been fascinated by the concept of symmetry breaking, a fundamental principle in physical sciences that ...

We have now been able to determine the crystal structure of xenon by a method allowing the use of a very small quantity of gas: it was condensed as a very thin layer upon the surface of a quartz ...