Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy—a specialized imaging technique that looks for a change in the color of intense ...

The chains of amino acids that make up proteins are critical to every form of life. The complex ways that these proteins fold ...

Only one side of a silver crystal has the right structure to trigger ice formation, revealing how these particles help clouds ...

The hyperfine structure of radium monofluoride has been measured by researchers in the US and elsewhere with such precision that the effects of the finite size of the nuclear magnetisation are visible ...

High-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM) is the only experimental technique to directly watch proteins in dynamic action. However, as a surface scanning technique with limited spatial resolution, ...

MIT scientists used radium monofluoride atom to observe electrons entering atomic nuclei, revealing new details of nuclear magnetism.

Scientists find that natural iron minerals can speed up the breakdown of toxic plastic additives in the environment.

Scientists have taken another giant step towards building the most precise clock ever imagined—one that could display not only the passage of time, but shifting rules of nature itself. An ...

Researchers are exploring MXenes, 2D materials that could transform air into ammonia for cleaner fertilizers and fuels. Their ...