The shape of tiny silver seeds made of fewer than 200 atoms depends on their precise size and temperature and defines the shape of the final nanoparticle.

Until now, creating quantum superpositions of ultra-cold atoms has been a real headache, too slow to be realistic in the ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The ...

The 17th-century French philosopher René Descartes famously said, “I think, therefore I am.” What Descartes meant by that was ...

Researchers develop a nickel catalyst that converts carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide with 99% selectivity by precisely ...

Even when particles seem to shift in the blink of an eye, as with quantum entanglement, there are measurable intervals ...

Discover the history of flash paper, guncotton, and nitrocellulose. Learn how Christian Schonbein's accidental discovery led ...

Metamaterials are materials that possess exotic properties, and the metamaterial assembled at the École Polytechnique ...

Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion ...

To get around the constraints of quantum physics, researchers have built a new acoustic system to study the way the minuscule atoms of condensed matter talk together. They hope to one day build an ...

DNA is fundamental to the biology of all life on Earth, but how many of us actually know what it is or what it's made of?

An atom is so small that a single drop of water contains more than a billion atoms. Although tiny, atoms are mostly empty ...