Illustration
Illustration of how a single crystal sample of silicon deforms during shock compression on nanosecond timescales.

News Feature
Silicon, an element abundant in Earth’s crust, is currently the most widely used semiconductor material and is important in fields like engineering, geophysics and...

Press Release
A new study has found that “diamond rain,” a long-hypothesized exotic type of precipitation on ice giant planets, could be more common than previously...



