Using short laser pulses, researchers have imaged the exact moment an ammonia molecule bends and sheds a hydrogen atom.

During chemical reactions, atoms in the reacting substances break their bonds and re-arrange, forming different chemical ...

Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The ...

A new lens-free imaging system uses software to see finer details from farther away than optical systems ever could before.

Florida State University scientists have engineered a new crystal that forces atomic magnets to swirl into complex, repeating ...

Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have refined an X-ray diffraction technique for detecting biological structures ...

Taking images of tiny structures within cells is tricky business. One technique, cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET), ...

By forcing crystal structures to compete, scientists uncovered a new way to make magnetism twist. Florida State University ...

Scientists discover water that's solid and liquid. Superionic ice found in lab could explain Uranus and Neptune's bizarre ...

A new twist on two-photon polymerization has been used to deliver objects, including lasers and an elephant, directly into ...

Nearly a century ago, Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll provided the first demonstration of a microscope that could image specimens using electrons rather than light. The earliest images obtained via this ...