Whether it is an unknown powder newly synthesized in the laboratory or a metal part whose properties have changed due to heat ...

In the world of the very tiny, perfection is rare: virtually all materials have defects on the atomic level. These imperfections — missing atoms, atoms of one type swapped for another, and misaligned ...

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology and their team involving researchers of JASRI, Osaka University, Nagoya Institute of Technology and Nara Institute of Science and Technology have just ...

A Rice University laboratory has improved upon its ability to determine molecular structures in three dimensions in ways that challenge long-used standards. The researchers reported their results ...

Researchers can now rewrite glass chemistry while it is still molten, unlocking properties that extreme heat once made ...

Scanning Tunneling Microscopes (STMs) are amazing tools which can manipulate singular atoms, but they cannot characterize these atoms as they act only on the outer electron shell. Meanwhile X-ray ...

Humans have been building things out of other things since the Stone Age, but it’s really been the past 200 years that things have gotten wild. Just think of all of the alloys, plastics, rubbers, ...

Diamondiyne, a porous assemblage of carbon atoms first theoretically described 35 years ago, has finally been produced.

Of the four fundamental forces, gravity is the most familiar—seemingly unchanging, ubiquitous, and maybe even a little boring. We first meet gravity while dropping our first toys, and later get to ...

If you were to take any object in the Universe that's made of normal matter ⁠— anything a human being could touch, see, or otherwise detect an interaction with using our bodies ⁠— you'd find that you ...

Scientists have just developed a novel approach to determine and visualize the three-dimensional (3-D) structure of individual dopant atoms using SPring-8. Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology ...