Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy—a ...

Plutonium has captured the attention of scientists since its discovery in the early 1940s. This enigmatic element has an important role to play in emerging energy technologies like nuclear batteries ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

As metals undergo rolling, heating, forging, or other shaping steps, these dislocations act as atomic shuffling agents with selective bias. Rather than scrambling atoms purely at random, dislocations ...

Imagine being able to program materials to control heat like you can control a light with a dimmer switch. By simply ...

Spintronics devices will be key to realizing faster and more energy-efficient computers. To give us a better understanding of how to make them, a Kobe University team now showed how different ...

Metal-organic frameworks can store huge amounts of gas in a tiny space—enabling advances that could help humans fight climate ...

Atomic imaging shows graphene nanoribbons retain atomic structure and adjustable electronic alignment after transfer to ...

International sanctions can have a paradoxical effect, spurring some nations to push harder to obtain nuclear weapons. Here’s ...

Marietta-based company Atomic-6 has developed what it calls Space Armor, a new type of debris shield for spacecraft.