From computer chips to quantum dots—technological platforms were only made possible thanks to a detailed understanding of the ...

A tomic clocks, which power GPS, online transactions, and data networks, just became more precise. MIT physicists have developed a technique that doubles the accuracy of optical atomic clocks by ...

A new AI model generates realistic synthetic microscope images of atoms, providing scientists with reliable training data to accelerate materials research and atomic scale analysis.

Ford's 1958 Nucleon concept car featured a nuclear reactor powering suburban commutes, swapping uranium cores every 5,000 miles at specialized service centers.

For decades, it's been known that subtle chemical patterns exist in metal alloys, but researchers thought they were too minor to matter—or that they got erased during manufacturing. However, recent ...

UC Irvine-led team develops new electron microscopy technique that can detect directional dependence of vibrations in solids. Anisotropic phonon propagation governs material properties such as heat ...