In the air people breathe, the water on Earth, the stars in the sky and more, atoms are the building blocks that make up the ...

(Nanowerk News) When world-leading teams join forces, new findings are bound to be made. This is what happened when quantum physicists from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and the Max ...

Crystallography is the science of analyzing the pattern produced by shining an X-ray beam through a material sample. A powder sample produces a different pattern than solid crystal. One longstanding ...

Water ice permanently coats 10% of Earth’s land surface 1, and atmospheric ice clouds surround about half of the planet. Ice surfaces thus rank among the most ubiquitous interfaces in the natural ...

What is Atom Probe Tomography? Atom Probe Tomography (APT) is a powerful analytical technique that provides three-dimensional (3D) imaging and chemical composition analysis of materials at the atomic ...

Some materials behave unexpectedly. They crack differently than expected, or react in ways that are hard to explain. The ...

Researchers have used equipment originally intended for astronomy observation to capture transformations in the nuclear structure of atomic nuclei, reports a new study. A group of researchers have ...

Scientists are exploring a new type of optical atomic clock based on ytterbium-173 ions that could help define the future standard for measuring time.