Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory discovered a new phase a matter called “half-ice, half-fire.” This elemental moniker is a reference to the ordered ...

Yin added: "Next, we are going to explore the fire–ice phenomenon in systems with quantum spins and with additional lattice, charge and orbital degrees of freedom." He concluded: "The door to ...

The "half-ice, half-fire" phase is the twin state of the "half-fire, half-ice" phase discovered by Yin, Tsvelik, and Christopher Roth, their 2015 undergraduate summer intern who is now a postdoc ...

"Cold, soft ice cream and hot, crispy coating complement each other like yin and yang, harmoniously merging into a perfect ...