Different atoms and ions possess characteristic energy levels. Like a fingerprint, they are unique for each species. Among ...

Technical University of Braunschweig, and the University of Delaware achieved new insight into the inner structure of the ...

Light-emitting semiconductors are used throughout everyday life in TVs, smartphones, and lighting. However, many technical ...

Prof. Liu Cong from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators, ...

Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have refined an X-ray diffraction technique for detecting biological structures ...

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers linked atomic-scale features to efficient heat-to-electricity conversion, offering ...

Every summer, our cities burn energy to keep us cool. The same happens in winter with the increasing demand for heating.

The project has received £215,100 from the Royal Society’s International Science Partnership Fund and is a collaboration with ...

Magnetism is usually taught as a story of straight lines, with field arrows marching neatly from north to south. In a lab at Florida State University, that picture has just been shattered by a new ...

Physicists are learning to treat light not as an untouchable beam that simply passes through matter, but as something that can be bent, cloaked, and sculpted at scales smaller than a single wavelength ...

WARNING: This article contains spoilers about the season finale of Pluribus, Apple TV’s popular science fiction series. If you haven’t watched it yet, go do so before reading this article. I’ll wait.

Electronics keep shrinking, but silicon is starting to run into physical limits. To go smaller, researchers are turning to something far tinier than any transistor on a chip: single molecules that act ...