Now, the outside of electric wires are usually covered in plastic because it’s a very poor conductor. It hardly conducts any electricity at all, so we can say it’s an electrical insulator.

What if your electronic devices could adapt on the fly to temperature, pressure, or impact? Thanks to a new breakthrough in ...

On the periodic table, semiconductors (also known as metalloids) crop up along a diagonal line between conductors and insulators. Noble gases such as helium and neon are poor conductors of ...

"It's the first time that we as physicists understand microscopically why the specific type of Mott insulator that we looked at has never been turned into a conductor," said Brown physics ...