Making electrons flow like a liquid is difficult, but inside graphene researchers forced them to move so fast that they ...

“What we've experimentally found in our recent work is that a certain amount of heat can promote the chemical conversion ...

Redefining the repeating pattern in photonic crystals creates tightly confined pathways for light while preserving symmetry, ...

According to the model, dark matter may have started as particles that were hot, light, massless, and fast. As the universe ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Electron microscopy has existed for nearly a century, but a record ...

Metal oxides are abundant in nature and central to technologies such as photocatalysis and photovoltaics. Yet, many suffer from poor electrical conduction, caused by strong repulsion between electrons ...

After a year of trial and error, Liyang Chen had managed to whittle down a metallic wire into a microscopic strand half the width of an E.coli bacterium — just thin enough to allow a trickle of ...

Electrons flow underground in ways far more extensive than once believed, forming networks that link distant chemical zones. Minerals, organic molecules, and specialized bacteria can act as bridges, ...

Programmable photonics devices, which use light to perform complex computations, are emerging as a key area in integrated ...

Computers that use light rather than electricity to represent and manipulate data could slash the power demands of data centres and simultaneously speed up calculations. Two studies published today ...