In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...

This corralled supercooled liquid relies on the surprising property that some atoms in a liquid remain stationary regardless ...

New research offers clearer insight into how phase transitions unfold at the atomic scale in real materials. When ice turns into water, the change happens almost instantly. Once the melting ...

Researchers from Skoltech Engineering Center's Hierarchically Structured Materials Laboratory have developed a new method to ...

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Abstract: Confocal microscopy is an essential component of wafer defect detection systems. Wafers are raw materials used in the manufacture of semiconductor chips. The semiconductor chip manufacturing ...

Identical growth conditions yield uniform monolayer graphene on three different perovskite oxides, suggesting gas-phase ...

Study finds ultrathin tubes connecting brain cells that transport Alzheimer's proteins. The network changes months before ...

In recent years, heat has stopped being just a number on a thermometer and has become something we can literally see at the atomic scale. In 2025, an ...

A microscopic 'Christmas tree' is a seasonal look at a remarkable science project that found eerie comparisons between the ...

The Trump administration has awarded a $1.6 million, no-bid contract a Danish university to study hepatitis B vaccinations on ...

MXenes, a promising class of 2D materials with diverse applications, have faced manufacturing challenges due to expensive, ...