Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have unlocked a hidden power within silicon, the backbone of modern electronics. Their findings could transform how future devices are built, ...

Some mushrooms are sturdier than others, but it isn’t necessarily because of their chemistry – it’s how the filaments that ...

Excitons have been created by injecting an electron into a molecule, and then removing another one, in rapid succession.

Knowable Magazine reports on attosecond science, revealing how scientists study atomic interactions at unbelievable speeds to unlock molecular mysteries.

An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and molecules, and laser-wielding scientists are revealing the action ...

Scanning-tunnelling microscope with a superconducting tip could help uncover materials for next-generation quantum computers ...

Researchers at the ICN2 and the UAB have developed a novel strategy to obtain different types of organic molecules by breaking down their molecular structures. This technique enables fast and precise ...

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy: A Breakthrough In Imaging There are numerous examples in science in which a radically different conceptual approach to solving a problem at hand has resulted in a major ...

Coupling subcycle THz pulses to a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) enables ultrafast spectroscopy at the atomic scale. This technique critically depends on the shape of the THz near-field waveform ...

Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy are techniques for visualizing material structures at the atomic scale. The measurements taken by these methods can be used to learn more about emergent ...