A surprisingly small detail in the skin may play an outsized role in how young skin looks and how well it repairs scars. Researchers say the clue is a microscopic structure found in humans, pigs, and ...

Ever since their discovery, quasicrystals have garnered much attention due to their strange structure. Today, they remain far from being well-understood. In a new study, scientists reveal, for the ...

A new theoretical study led by researchers at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory has identified the ...

By squeezing terahertz light beyond its usual limits, researchers have exposed hidden quantum "jiggles" inside a ...

Boris Khaykovich, Research Scientist, Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will give a talk on “Microscopic structure of molten salts by neutron scattering.” ...

Physicists have finally built a microscope that can watch superconducting electrons move in real time, and the picture is far ...

The microscope is 1,000 times more precise than current techniques, allowing the creation of wetting maps as a new concept for hydrophobic surface characterization Wetting is an everyday phenomenon ...

India, Feb. 9 -- You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light you shine at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, while X-rays reveal its internal structures and ...

(Nanowerk News) Between chemistry classes, gemstones, and electronics, the idea of crystals, substances with an ordered and periodic arrangement of atoms is quite common. But about 40 years ago, a ...