Congratulations, Santa Fe, for officially stopping water fluoridation. The city cited rising costs and ongoing research showing negative health effects. Cost: $1/2 million to keep this corrosive ...

Stanford scientists found that strontium titanate improves its performance when frozen to near absolute zero, showing ...

A dwarf galaxy 100 million light years away is being stripped of its crucial star-forming gas, and it seems that the cosmic ...

They discovered a way around an important quantum physics law, enabling a future ability to navigate an interstellar journey, ...

A vertical column on the periodic table is called a group or sometimes a family. Elements within the same group share similar ...

Strontium titanate’s remarkable ability to perform at extremely low temperatures makes it a key material for next-generation cryogenic devices used in quantum computing and space exploration. Supercon ...

The dance of chemistry often culminates in the dramatic formation of a precipitate, a solid substance emerging from the ...

Having good neighbors can be very valuable—even in the atomic world. A team of Amsterdam physicists was able to determine an ...

At 4 degrees Kelvin, most electro-optic materials falter. Nanoelectronics R&D center imec has now successfully engineered ...

Researchers at imec, Leuven, Belgium, in collaboration with KU Leuven and Ghent University, have re-engineered a common crystal, strontium titanate (SrTiO 3) so it behaves with record performance at ...