For two centuries, students have learned that heat flows and engines work according to rigid limits that no machine can beat.

Physicists are learning to treat light not as an untouchable beam that simply passes through matter, but as something that ...

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 ...

Most of the things that we measure aren't critical and we can have a pretty large margin of error and be okay. For instance if you're weighing yourself a pound low or ...

Atoms don’t scale, and this is the ultimate barrier to the continuation of Moore’s Law, Dr Bernie Meyerson, chief technology officer of IBM, told the 2006 Globalpress Summit Conference in Monterey.

Engineers in Sydney have demonstrated a quantum integrated circuit made up of just a few atoms. By precisely controlling the quantum states of the atoms, the new processor can simulate the structure ...

Scientists have captured the first ever footage of atoms bonding at a scale around half a million times smaller than the width of a human hair. Using advanced microscopy methods, the team of UK and ...

Physicists have succeeded in manipulating atoms individually in a lattice of light and in arranging them in arbitrary patterns. These results are an important step towards large-scale quantum ...

Researchers have developed a technique similar to the MRI but has higher resolution and sensitivity, which has the ability to scan individual cells. Researchers from the Institute of Photonic Sciences ...