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Every day, your body replaces billions of cells—and yet, your tissues stay perfectly organized. How is that possible?

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Oxides exhibit an amazing series of crystal frameworks, consisting of easy binary forms like alumina (Al ₂ O FOUR) and silica ...

A remarkable pink diamond, thought to have once belonged to Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France, has recently been ...

Diamonds might be forever but that doesn't stop them being bought and sold. One stone thought to have once belonged to Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France, has just sold for US$14 million (£10 ...

The juxtaposition of the two findings highlights both the promise and the challenge of working with boron at the atomic scale: its versatility allows for surprising structures but also makes it ...

Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers have discovered a new class of materials – called intercrystals – with unique electronic properties that could power future technologies ...

A recent study published in npj 2D Materials and Applications explores hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) atomristors, highlighting their notable memory window, low leakage current, and minimal power ...

In a recent article, researchers analyzed defect structures in monolayer graphene and hexagonal boron nitride using STEM imaging and neural network-based analysis, uncovering distinct responses to ion ...