Despite the similarities, Langmuir emphasised that this pump was fundamentally different from Gaede’s; the cold walls of the ...

Physicists are now watching matter behave in a way that defies everyday intuition, with atoms and even light itself arranging ...

BEIJING -- A landmark achievement by Chinese researchers in creating China's first two-dimensional metals has been named one ...

This is carbon. And of all chemical elements in the Universe, it’s one of the most plentiful. So what would happen if all of ...

The hero is regular matter, which is everything we can see around us. Antimatter is the mirror-image explosive twin that scientists understand well but can barely find. And dark matter is the ...

This achievement removes one of the biggest roadblocks in quantum materials science and brings practical quantum devices much ...

Water is all around us, yet its surface layer—home to chemical reactions that shape life on Earth—is surprisingly hard to study. Experiments at SLAC's X-ray laser are bringing it into focus.

Fluorine is critical for biomedicine. This element can help drug compounds be more potent and last longer in the body, and ...

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 ...

Using advanced electron microscopy, researchers have watched individual atoms transition from chaotic liquid motion to ordered solid structure, revealing that the boundary between liquid and solid ...

Preliminary studies indicate that derivatives of verticillin A can kill certain types of glioma cells. MIT chemists have, for ...

Researchers have discovered that not all atoms in a liquid are in motion and that some remain stationary regardless of the ...