Quote of the day by the woman who changed science, Maria Goeppert Mayer: In 1963, only the second woman in history won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Maria Goeppert Mayer earned it for the nuclear shell ...

The ‘Tapping Mode SQUID-on-Tip’ (TM-SOT) microscope enables multimodal imaging to be performed extremely close to the sample ...

Roughly 270 years ago, Dr. Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost from Germany observed a peculiar behavior of water droplets on heated metal surfaces. In his manuscript, "A Tract About Some Qualities of Common ...

Cornell researchers have used high-resolution 3D imaging to detect, for the first time, the atomic-scale defects in computer chips that can sabotage their performance. The imaging method, which was ...

Last year, our most detailed map of the universe yet suggested our understanding of dark energy has been wrong for decades. The shock result is reigniting the search for a better cosmic story ...

What links the Leidenfrost effect and sustainable energy storage systems? In a study recently published in Small, a team of ...

Quantum technologies, computers or other devices that operate leveraging quantum mechanical effects, rely on the precise ...

Study reveals how two proteins cooperate in a key early step of antiviral detection, as reported by researchers at Science ...

Hollow graphene aerogel fibers mimicking polar bear hair achieve record-low thermal conductivity and high electrical ...

On a recent Saturday morning at the Savannah River Site Museum, a group of Scouts leaned over tables scattered with Geiger ...

The discovery of bright yet stable pigments is vanishingly rare, making them hugely valuable. Now chemist Mas Subramanian is unpicking the atomic code of colour and homing in on our most-wanted hue ...

The Schrödinger equation rewrote the rules of matter and forever changed the field of chemistry. Donald Truhlar, a chemist at the University of Minnesota, calls it the “greatest advance of the 20th ...