A joint research team from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory has achieved precise control and real-time observation of ...

For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

Scientists have found a way to see ultrafast molecular interactions inside liquids using an extreme laser technique once ...

Electron microscopy uses a beam of electrons to illuminate a sample and achieve much higher spatial resolution than light microscopy. Transmission electron microscopy generates an image of the ...

The emergence of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM; also called electron cryo-microscopy) as a tool for structure determination has been a major development in structural biology. The method is well ...

Physicists Maria Goeppert Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen develop a theory of the nucleus as composed of shells of protons and neutrons. It explains why nuclei ...