Windows 7 is still a very popular operating system worldwide — as of January 2019, it still ran on over 350 million PCs globally. As a result, when Microsoft announced that it will cease support for the decade-old Windows 7 from January 14, 2020, it became an understandably important factor ... Read More »

There is a crack in everything, Leonard Cohen sang; that’s how the light gets in. Now a team led by scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has explored the properties of a promising class of materials with new capabilities that depend on those cracks. Their results ... Read More »