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

Scientists have cracked open a mysterious layer inside batteries, using cutting-edge 3D atomic force microscopy to capture the dynamic molecular structures at their solid-liquid interfaces. These once ...

Understanding the interaction between light and matter at the smallest scales (angstrom scale) is essential for advancing technology and materials science. Atomic-scale structures, such as defects in ...

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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For most of human history, we kept time by Earth’s place in space ...

Atomic clocks are already the world's most precise time keepers, but physicists are tinkering with a new design that could make them "50 times more precise than today's best designs," according to new ...

Atomic clocks. They almost sound like something out of science fiction, or an experiment confined to some elite physics lab, but in reality, they’ve been around since the 1950s in one form or another.

The scientists are about to tell all that can safely be told about the vast wartime researches that led to the atom bomb. The Atomic Energy Commission announced last week that it intends to issue, ...

When the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima, its tremors were felt even in U.S. book publishing. The journalists of science hastily locked themselves up with their thoughts and their typewriters. Editors ...

Scattering near-field optical microscopy with ultralow tip oscillation amplitudes. Credit: Takashi Kumagai Understanding the interaction between light and matter at the smallest scales (angstrom scale ...