AMES, Iowa – When Valery Levitas left Europe in 1999, he packed up a rotational diamond anvil cell and brought it to the United States. He and the researchers in his group are still using a ...

When major changes sweep through an organization, it can feel like a period of darkness - a disruption eclipsing the normal way of operating and demanding a new mindset. Just as the path of totality ...

Scientists have used pressure with a twisting shear to permanently deform silicon, an important material for electronics. The resulting changes in silicon's microstructure produce material phases that ...