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

Most people know that you can't see atoms... or can you? With this special microscope, scientists actually can! In the late ...

MIT researchers have built a terahertz microscope that reveals hidden quantum motion inside superconductors for the first time.

For the first time, the new scope allowed physicists to observe terahertz 'jiggles' in a superconducting fluid.

Stanford physicists have engineered a sophisticated optical cavity capable of harvesting single photons from individual atoms.

Researchers from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have stretched a chain of gold ...

A new way of capturing light from atoms could finally unlock ultra-powerful, million-qubit quantum computers. After decades of effort, researchers may finally be closing in on a practical path toward ...

When materials become just one atom thick, melting no longer follows the familiar rules. Instead of jumping straight from solid to liquid, an unusual in-between state emerges, where atomic positions ...

In the quest for room-temperature superconductivity, international physicists have uncovered a link between magnetism and the pseudogap.

Some time around 1683, amateur Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek scraped the plaque from between his teeth and peered ...