While probing single molecules or atoms typically requires liquid helium—a costly resource—to build a stable environment, a new development from a joint Chinese research team changes the game. By ...

The challenge: seeing atoms without freezing the budgetOptical-coupled scanning probe microscopes (OC-SPM) can visualize individual atoms and probe ...

University at Buffalo researcherscreated the first-ever star-shaped vanadyl hydroxide (VOOH) and shown that this shape can ...

Star-shaped vanadium hydroxide nanoparticles show that changing a material's shape from sheets to stars shifts its energy ...

Edward Cole and Charles Hanley have spent decades solving hard problems in microelectronics and energy systems at Sandia ...

Today we are machining some metal inside the scanning electron microscope! By creating a custom fixture, we can manually ...

Roman painters commissioned at the end of the 1st century to decorate the walls of the Domus of Salvius in present-day ...

To solve this puzzle, Thomas Clements, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester, and his colleagues put this supposed ...

For smartphones and computers to become smaller and faster, technologies capable of precisely controlling electrical ...

Minus K Technology’s U.S. Educational Giveaway has granted over $125,000 of its superior performing patented passive ...

A review paper presents an integrated AFM framework for observing, manipulating, and engineering ferroelectric materials at ...

Tucked in the northeast corner of Spokane is a 45-member team dutifully working to ensure America's return to the moon this ...