Researchers have shown that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can be used to produce multi-element optical ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station were not only treated to a sight from Earth's atmosphere recently but also ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a suite of algorithms to automate the counting of sister ...

The melting of materials seems like a simple phenomenon. However, when their thickness is reduced to just a few atoms, ...

A new study in Nature Physics has turned an old problem on its head by reporting a way to use the noisy interactions between ...

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Researchers from the High Energy Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI) in Japan and their international collaborators have made a discovery that bridges ...

In a quiet lab at Argonne National Laboratory, Saw-Wai Hla and his team were huddled around their instruments late one night when they detected the spectral signature they had been searching for. The ...

Scientists have uncovered that some atoms in liquids don't move at all—even at extreme temperatures—and these anchored atoms dramatically alter the way materials freeze. Using advanced electron ...

EuQlid Inc., a startup that has developed a quantum device for analyzing the inner workings of semiconductors, launched today with $3 million in funding. The capital was provided by QDNL and ...

Within a modest engineering laboratory at Duke University, a new type of researcher is quietly at work next to an optical microscope. This new researcher has no need for coffee, does not become tired, ...

Scientists used a fast laser to wiggle atoms, temporarily altering material behavior, a step toward smaller, more efficient electronics like smartphones. (Nanowerk News) Researchers at Michigan State ...