At this week's meeting of the Materials Research Society in Boston, US, scientists from all over the world will be sizing up the latest equipment for materials characterization
Read article: Novel tools reveal material secrets
Optical spectroscopy technique originally developed for the steel industry now offers fast-track analysis of next-generation device structures
Read article: Fast and precise depth profiler delivers thin-film insights
Weyl metals and all their fascinating phenomena are not the only systems for cosmological simulations
Read article: Benchtop cosmology exploits solid-state systems
Three very different experiments explore how ensembles react to rapid changes
Read article: Ultracold atoms quench a thirst for universality far from equilibrium
Over 100 experiments done in just 6 min of freefall
Read article: Rocket carries Bose–Einstein condensate into space
Ricequakes in milk-cereal combo make noise like slowing metronome
Read article: Snap, crackle and dam: puffed rice gives insights into rockfill and ice shelf collapse
Calculations identify the fine balance between different interactions, as well as highlighting limitations to DFT calculations
Read article: Self-assembled molecular layers strike a balance
With an X-ray source 10 billion times brighter than the Sun, Diamond Light Source sheds light on materials conundrums from art conservation and ice-cream to data storage
Read article: Diamond Light Source – when a tool becomes a gem
How time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry is helping scientists understand commercial challenges in materials science
Read article: Creating chemical images, solving industrial problems
Mathematicians work out how to break noodles in two at long last
Read article: The twisted secret to snapping spaghetti strands into two
