Two recent studies published in Nature and Science Advances explored quantum approaches that could improve the precision of ...

Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major General Kenneth D. Nichols, continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality traits and qualifications, led to choosing ...

A University of Tokyo team has turned organic molecules into nanodiamonds using electron beams, overturning decades of assumptions about beam damage. Their discovery could transform materials science ...

It's Memorial Day, Short Wavers. This holiday, we bring you a meditation on time ... and clocks. There are hundreds of atomic clocks in orbit right now, perched on satellites all over Earth. We depend ...

In a world first, scientists have filmed atoms in motion, capturing their thermal vibrations in real-time with stunning clarity. The breakthrough, led by Yichao Zhang, an assistant professor at the ...

Researchers uncover how the surface structure of silver iodide at the atomic scale triggers ice formation in clouds, ...

Penn State scientists have devised a new method to predict superconducting materials that could work at higher temperatures.

More than ten years ago, researchers at Rice University led by materials scientist Boris Yakobson predicted that boron atoms would cling too tightly to copper to form borophene, a flexible, metallic ...

It's moving too fast. It's glowing the wrong colour. And it's full of the wrong chemicals. Our third-known interstellar ...

A one-quintillionth-of-a-second lasing breakthrough could lead to next-generation X-ray technologies, improving imaging in medical, materials and quantum science. (Nanowerk News) Once only a part of ...

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