Whether a smartphone battery lasts longer or a new drug can be developed to treat incurable diseases depends on how stably the atoms constituting the material are bonded. The core of molecular design ...

Researchers have demonstrated that a nanoparticle of 7,000 sodium atoms can act as a wave, creating a record-setting ...

It may sound like an oxymoron, but this massive nanoparticle made up of 7,000 sodium atoms is the largest to exhibit such quantum behavior.

Researchers have uncovered how atoms subtly rearrange themselves for up to a trillionth of a second before releasing ...

In a quantum world drowning in lab demos, Infleqtion is making a different bet—real hardware, real missions, real deployments ...

A cluster of 7,000 sodium atoms has just been coaxed into behaving as a single, ghostly wave, stretching quantum weirdness ...

A new computational framework maps 3D atomic positions in amorphous materials, achieving full accuracy for silica using ...

Probing the vibration of atoms provides detailed information on local structure and bonding that define material properties. Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) offers extremely high resolution to ...

There’s nothing like a great love story. Jess and Robbie met and instantly fell head over heels for each other – well, almost ...

Iridium oxide is one of the most important—and most problematic—materials in the global push toward clean energy. It is ...

A couple of weeks back I posted an answer to a question from a Twitter follower’s child, who asked “How Strong Is Space?” That was fun, so here’s another kid-question answered, this one from my own ...