Solid-state batteries promise safer, lighter, and more energy-dense power packs, yet commercial products keep slipping further into the future. A growing body of lab work now points to a subtle ...

Unlike their mid-century ancestors, today's plastics are being reimagined through ultra-thin layering at the molecular level.

Stanford University researchers say they have developed a nanoscale optical device that could shift ...

In hydrogen production catalysts, water droplets must detach easily from the surface to prevent blockage by bubbles, allowing for faster hydrogen generation. In semiconductor manufacturing, the ...

A tiny device that entangles light and electrons without super-cooling could revolutionize quantum tech in cryptography, ...

Since the early 2010s, ultrafast probing of materials at atomic-level resolution has been enabled by terahertz scanning tunneling microscopes (THz-STM). But these devices can't detect the dissipation ...

Traditional Conductive AFM (C-AFM) seems to be moving aside to make space for a more advanced technology: ResiScope III – a new module for the Nano-Observer II AFM system. This move represents a major ...

Spin waves could unlock the next generation of computer technology, a new component allows physicists to control them. Researchers at Aalto University have developed a new device for spintronics. The ...

Spraying plants with fertilizers and pesticides is typically a highly lossy affair — as little as 1% of the substances currently used in industrial and food production farming is actually taken up by ...

A new discovery is an important step towards smaller, more advanced electronics. And maybe more environmentally friendly gadgets, too. Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology ...

Johannes Vermeer's "Girl With a Pearl Earring" is not a very large painting, but the replica recently created by researchers in China and the USA is even smaller. Scientists at Nanjing University, ...