Atomic-scale detail is now possible with photons, thanks to a cooled-down silver tip and a clever use of plasmonics.

For the first time, spin waves, also known as magnons, have been directly observed at the nanoscale. This breakthrough was ...

Atoms are the building blocks of all matter, from the air we breathe to every cell in our bodies. Yet despite their presence everywhere, no one has truly seen an atom with the naked eye ,until ...

Scientists use ptychography to capture atoms as they transfer heat, and learn that phasons dominate during thermal movement ...

In 1947, Kix cereal ran a promotion for an "Atomic Bomb Ring" that contained radioactive polonium-210, one of the deadliest ...

Physicists would dearly love to find new particles, but there's no sign of them in colliders like the LHC. Now we have found ...

Twisted 2D bilayers show angle dependent atomic vibrations, revealing how misalignment affects heat flow and aiding design of ...

An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and ...

Scientists have built a microscope capable of visualizing optical responses at the scale of individual atoms, redefining the ...

Ghost imaging is like a game of Battleship. Instead of seeing an object directly, scientists use entangled photons to remove ...