Andrew Iams saw something strange while looking through his electron microscope. He was examining a sliver of a new aluminum ...

Early on April 25, 2025, a rare triple conjunction of Venus, Saturn, and a crescent Moon will grace the morning sky. This ...

Their unique shape lets them form a pattern that fills ... around an axis so that it looks the same. "Fivefold symmetry is very rare. That was the telltale sign that we might have a quasicrystal ...

The quasicrystals found in this study form the corners of 20-sided shape called an icosahedron. To prove that he found an icosahedron, Andrew Iams had ...

Quasicrystals, once considered impossible, were found in a 3D-printed aluminum alloy – and they make it stronger. This could change how we design aircraft and car components. Researchers at NIST ...

In 2017, a team at HRL Laboratories, based in California, and UC Santa Barbara discovered a high-strength aluminum alloy that could be 3D printed. They found that adding zirconium to the aluminum ...

Tikal, one of the most powerful Maya city-states, became a rival in this network. Previous discoveries — such as the famous ...