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.

The quantum world has a reputation for being elusive, but physicists are now starting to watch it unfold in real time. For ...

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

The ultimate goal of materials scientists is to design and create materials with precise structures and tailored properties.

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 ...

A nanoscale junction forces molecules into reactive configurations, allowing a small voltage to catalyze a chemical ...

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

Ocean Optics reports on how spectroscopy revolutionizes research by utilizing light to analyze materials, improving accuracy and efficiency.

Outer space never fails to remind us just how much we don't know. Astronomers have uncovered a lemon-shaped planet that ...

Scientists reveal how iron-rich soil minerals chemically trap carbon using multiple nanoscale bonding mechanisms.

The James Webb Space Telescope was trained on a planet unlike any other we know of, with a strange shape, strange composition ...

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