Hundreds of regular patterns spontaneously emerge on a small germanium chip. A curiosity about tiny dots on a germanium wafer ...

Curiosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer with evaporated metal films led to the discovery of ...

UCLA doctoral student Yilin Wong noticed that some tiny dots had appeared on one of her samples, which had been accidentally ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in the Oort Cloud.

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

Beautiful spiral patterns had been etched into the germanium ... followed by a 4-nanometer layer of gold. Next, the researchers placed a drop of mild etching solution onto the surface and dried ...