In a few highly specialized laboratories, scientists bombard matter with the world’s most powerful electrical pulses or zap it with sophisticated lasers. Other labs squeeze heavy-duty diamonds ...

Scientists have forced a solid magnetic metal into a spin liquid state, which may lead to insights into superconductivity and quantum computing. It sounds like a riddle: What do you get if you take ...

Grown at ambient pressure: A diamond sample in the solidified liquid metal. (Courtesy: Institute for Basic Science/Yan Gong) The usual way of manufacturing synthetic diamonds involves applying huge ...