If you think of a single atom as a grain of sand, then a wavelength of visible light—which is a thousand times larger than ...

Encouraged early on by Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi, the “Queen of Carbon” laid the foundation for countless advances in ...

Confining and rotating extremely cold atoms or molecules within atomic “Ferris wheels” made from laser light could test ...

“He blended history, culture and current issues in a way that made the material feel alive,” said Santiago Fermin, a ...

A discovery in V883 Orionis' planet-forming disk suggests Earth's water could have come from ancient interstellar ice that ...

This long-duration comet will make its closest approach to Earth this fall, before disappearing into the outer solar system ...

Every second of modern life runs on precision — from GPS navigation to the time signals that keep the internet in sync. But ...

Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy—a ...

Researchers at Fudan University have built the world’s first fully functional memory chip made from a material only a few ...

MIT researchers found that metals retain hidden atomic patterns once believed to vanish during manufacturing. These patterns ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...