Sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, tin and lead can now be made just a few atoms thick by crushing them at a high temperature and pressure between two sapphires ...

What makes matter stable? Why are atoms as they are? Why do different materials vary in their properties, such as electrical conductivity, density, melting temperature or light-absorption spectra?

UC Santa Barbara researchers are working to move cold atom quantum experiments and applications from the laboratory tabletop ...

Scientist Stephen Jesse will speak Tuesday at Friends of ORNL on "Building Materials and Devices with Atomic Precision: Perils and Promise" ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking AI-driven technique that reveals the hidden movements of nanoparticles, essential ...

Everything is made of atoms. Including us! These fundamental building blocks of matter formed at different times. Hydrogen first appeared around 14 billion years ago, heavier elements came later. This ...

A technological advancement from Tel Aviv University has, for the first time, enabled the application of the scientific ...

Zeolites, crystalline materials widely used in the petrochemical industry, serve as pivotal catalysts in the production of fine chemicals, with aluminium being the source of active sites within ...

As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous ...

QuEra, an academic spin-off company that uses atoms and lasers to encode quantum bits, or ‘qubits’, announced on 11 February that it had raised US$230 million in funding — one of the largest ...

Many objects that we normally deal with in quantum physics are only visible with special microscopes—individual molecules or atoms, for example. However, the quantum objects that Elena Redchenko works ...

Zeolites, crystalline materials widely used in the petrochemical industry, serve as pivotal catalysts in the production of ...