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 ...

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 ...

Superconductivity—the ability of a material to conduct electricity without any energy loss to heat—enables highly efficient, ...

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 ...

Researchers have built an upgraded quantum microscope that can map momentum-resolved tunneling spectra in graphene at room ...

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