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These are the words of researchers from the CNR, Italy’s National Research Council, summing up an extraordinary experiment recently published in Nature: a supersolid made of light. A quantum material that defies all known categories, behaving simultaneously like a solid crystal and a frictionless fluid. Until yesterday, we could only imagine such e...

An international team of female scientists from Ca' Foscari University Venice, Luleå University of Technology (Sweden), Italian National Research Council and Linköping University (Sweden) has created a new material capable of absorbing the full amount of solar radiation while retaining the accumulated heat. The project aims to produce new materials...

What makes the sound of one violin preferable to another? Do some Stradivarius violins really have a special sound? To answer these questions, a multidisciplinary team coordinated by the CNR involved 70 violin makers in a listening experiment to evaluate the sound qualities of four violins, including a Stradivarius. The results, published in The Jo...