Sensitive giant probes atomic world
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Inside the UK's most powerful microscope that is enabling researchers to probe individual atoms
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are peering into the atomic world with record clarity, developing an electron microscope image that can distinguish the individual, dumbbell-shaped atoms of silicon in a crystal.
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Device boosts prospects for inexpensive quantum cryptography and quantum computing.
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Plasma physicists have made an unprecedented measurement in their study of the Earth's magnetic field.
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Astronomers have produced the first truly useful image ever of something in space using gamma rays. It's a picture only an astronomer could love, but it appears to help solve a century-long mystery.
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Materials that could allow levitating trains and ultra powerful computers to become commonplace are coming of age
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In a feat of optical alchemy, researchers have used ultrashort laser bursts to alter how metals absorb and reflect light, changing their appearance dramatically.
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A recent article in New Scientist magazine, entitled â Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away,â implies that the UC Berkeley SETI@home project has uncovered a very convincing candidate
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An electrical pulse through nanotubes and wires helps find the crack.
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Scientists hope to build a giant âpinhole cameraâ in space to spot planets orbiting distant stars. The New Worlds Imager would be the size of a football field with a 30ft wide hole in the centre.
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Tiny antennae focus infrared laser light down to 100 nanometers, providing a way for scientists to see cells at work.
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By Barry, Patrick Finding a single heavy antimatter nucleus could revolutionize cosmology When summer comes to Antarctica this December, a group of physicists there will launch an enormous balloon carrying a scientific instrument through Earth's atmosphere to the edge of space.
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A gas flow such as a puff of compressed air produces a tiny amount of electricity as it passes across a semiconductor surface -- enough to make a sensitive gas-flow sensor.
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Combining a chemical chain reaction with the precise positioning of an atomic microscope opens a route to molecular electronics and nanostructures.
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By DUNCAN MANSFIELD    OAK RIDGE, Tenn.  -- Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are peering into the atomic world with record clarity, developing an electron microscope image that can distinguish the individual, dumbbell-shaped atoms of silicon in a crystal...
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Using electric fields to alter the electrical properties of a carbon nanotube on the fly makes for a key nanoscale electronic component.
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A new class of material, which brings computer chips made from a single molecule a step closer, has been discovered by scientists.