A team of physicists at UCLA has uncovered a strange and unexpected phenomenon—spiral patterns forming spontaneously on solid ...

Hundreds of regular patterns spontaneously emerge on a small germanium chip. A curiosity about tiny dots on a germanium wafer ...

Curiosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer with evaporated metal films led to the discovery of ...

Recently, I’ve been noticing a common factor: When there’s a little blip of a steel dish on a coffee table or a metal vase with a liquid-mirror finish, I’m in. Metal housewares aren’t ...