Samples of "trinitite" created during the world’s first nuclear bomb test in 1945 contain unique crystals never seen before.

Herbert A. McKinstry, a pioneering materials scientist, educator, community activist and founding faculty member of Penn State's Materials Research Laboratory, passed away at the age of 101. McKinstry ...

Optical super-resolution resolves 137 nm features, matching SEM performance and exceeding a standard 100x objective.

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Christophe Leterrier uses advanced microscopy to uncover neurons’ intricate nanostructure and dynamics while creating ...

In a process analogous to how solids melt into liquids, the electrons in many different metals form crystal-like patterns ...

A viral video from Bogor, Indonesia, shows a rare iridescent cloud shimmering with rainbow colours. Learn the science behind ...

A long-standing mystery in materials science is beginning to unravel as researchers directly probe the hidden atomic ...

Inprentus won a TASA contract to produce diffraction gratings, closely following a recent NASA award, highlighting ...

For decades, relaxor ferroelectrics have powered everything from medical ultrasounds to sonar systems, yet their inner atomic ...

Researchers from MIT and collaborating institutions have, for the first time, directly measured the 3D atomic structure of a ...

For the first time, researchers directly characterized the 3D atomic structure of a relaxor ferroelectric, a class of ...