Researchers built a silver-grooved chip that channels laser energy into nanometer-spaced peaks, beating the diffraction limit and aiding light-matter studies.

High-temperature superconductivity is still not fully understood. Now, an international research team at BESSY II has ...

Many heavy atomic nuclei are shaped more or less like squashed rugby balls than fully inflated ones, according to a ...

Explorers find evidence of a rare green diamond in Finland, with minerals pointing to its origin hidden beneath the ice.

In a milling process performed at the nanoscale, mechanical engineer Giacomo Po focuses a beam of ions onto an advanced metal alloy, shaping it into a ...

The neglect of women’s health, the health of every second person, is baked into medical science, writes Jennifer Horgan ...

A light pulse redirects electrons in an ultrathin layered material, creating a stable new state without heat or damage and ...

A novel experiment has revealed a phenomenon called the Bohr–Weisskopf effect in a pear-shaped nucleus in a molecule for the ...

Superconductivity occurs when electrons pair up, rather than scattering apart as they do in normal conductors or in everyday ...

For vegetarians, the Veggie Frenzy doesn’t feel like an afterthought – cream cheese, portobello mushrooms, lettuce, tomato, red onion, cucumbers, sprouts, provolone cheese, and roasted red peppers on ...

For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...