Three exotic new species of superconductivity were spotted last year, illustrating the myriad ways electrons can join together to form a frictionless quantum soup.

We know, for instance, that for a material to superconduct, electrons have to pair off, and these pairs must be coherent—i.e., their movements must be synchronized. If electrons are paired but ...

proposed a new structural design strategy—using lone pair electrons as ‘chemical scissors’ to prepare 2D van der Waals (vdWs) oxides. As a result, they discovered a stable 2D van der Waals ...

IN the light microscope, the characteristic change in the neurones of the cerebral cortex in Alzheimor's disease is the presence of dense bundles of argyrophilic fibrils. They are coiled into ...