A lab mistake led to self-forming spiral patterns on metal surfaces, revealing chemical-mechanical interactions.

Hundreds of regular patterns spontaneously emerge on a small germanium chip. A curiosity about tiny dots on a germanium wafer with metal films led to the discovery of intricate spiral patterns etched ...

Curiosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer with evaporated metal films led to the discovery of beautiful spiral patterns etched on the surface of the semiconductor by a ...

Key takeawaysCuriosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer with evaporated metal films led to the ...

The layered sample consisted of a germanium wafer topped ... under a microscope and couldn't believe her eyes. Beautiful spiral patterns had been etched into the germanium surface by a chemical ...

The cause of the strange blue spiral is actually a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that blasted off from Space Launch Complex 40 ...

A team of physicists at UCLA has uncovered a strange and unexpected phenomenon—spiral patterns forming spontaneously on solid ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way boast more than spirals; they also have feathers, where clumps of new stars are born. Astronomers ...

Gödel’s hypothesis on undecidability — wherein the answer to a critical question is not definable within the existing system ...

Strategies to break free from negative thought patterns by recognizing triggers, using defusion techniques, and reshaping ...