Chemistry textbooks explain how reactions start and end, but they rarely show what happens ...

For the first time, physicists have watched a beam of positronium, a short‑lived atom made of an electron and its antimatter ...

Researchers have shown that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can be used to produce multi-element optical ...

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

Researchers have demonstrated that consumer-grade 3D printers and inexpensive materials can produce advanced optical ...

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

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

Seismic waves passing through Earth's inner core have revealed much about our planet's iron center: how it's changing shape, reversing its spin, is weirdly textured, and contains an unusual state of ...

Insights into interface-specific transformations in metallic glass create a path to improved engineering of amorphous ...

America's national security relies in part on the U.S. Navy's nuclear-powered submarines, which can operate more than 800 ...

Custom polymer structures can now be 3D printed inside living cells using laser-based fabrication, opening paths to intracellular sensors, cell tracking tags, and embedded microlasers.