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 ...

More heat is transferred between objects that are just a few nanometers apart than physics theory predicts. A research team ...

Water confined in nanoscale channels has dramatically different electrical properties from bulk water, researchers at the University of Manchester have demonstrated. The differences, which include up ...

TEM is an essential tool for nanomaterials characterization, providing detailed imaging of morphology, particle size, and ...

CI chondrites are the most water- and volatile-rich of meteorites, with compositions similar to space rocks like Ryugu and ...

To address this challenge, an international research team led by Claire Donnelly at the Max Planck Institute performed scanning transmission X‑ray microscopy (STXM ... Marcus Schmidt, scientist at the ...

Within a modest engineering laboratory at Duke University, a new type of researcher is quietly at work next to an optical microscope. This new researcher has no need for coffee, does not become tired, ...

Greenland is melting, the Alps are melting and the Himalayas are melting -- yet in one vast mountain region, huge glaciers have remained stable, or even gained mass, in recent decades. Can it last? To ...

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of ...