Crystals might look simple, but their growth tells a far more complex and fascinating story. From grains of salt to diamonds, ...

Solar panels made from materials called perovskites could change how we generate electricity, opening the door to flexible and even transparent solar panels.

Imagine a clock that doesn't have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their own for all eternity. In a new study, ...

Physicists in Finland are the latest scientists to create time crystals, a new phase of matter that have some truly strange properties.

Two time crystals were made to interact in 2020 but this study is the first time that we are looking at the interaction of quasi-particles with a space-time crystal.

Months after physicists made a self-standing time crystal, they've made one that works at room temperature, expanding the real-world uses of the quantum matter.

Their study is published in the journal Science. Josep-Lluís Tamarit and Pol Lloveras, with Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in Spain, have published a Perspectives piece in the same ...

The Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Light is one of over 80 Max Planck Institutes worldwide and is engaged in basic research. It covers a broad research spectrum, including nonlinear ...