Like modern-day alchemists, metallurgists are constantly discovering and perfecting recipes for better alloys. A crucial step ...

A research group led by Assistant Professor Takafumi Tomita and Professor Kenji Ohmori at the Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, has developed a new microscopy ...

A new atom camera uses one ultracold rubidium atom to map light intensity and polarization with spatial resolution below 100 nanometers.

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ImpCarv revolutionizes nanoscale optical fabrication, enabling complex metastructures and all-optical devices with ...

A new technique is helping scientists create nanoscale patterns on chip materials at room ...

A new chip-making technique exploits a material's crystal structure to create nanoscale patterns at room temperature directly onto hard materials used in devices, including silica. The method could ...

Blurry light from lens imperfections is a problem everywhere, from microscopes to telescopes to smartphone cameras. Using a tiny yet carefully engineered optical element and artificial intelligence, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The 1945 Trinity nuclear test fused desert sand and bomb-tower materials into trinitite—a glassy substance unlike anything humans had created before.

Researchers found that critically boron-doped diamond films can develop intrinsic electronic granularity, producing three ...