Key points of this articleIn 1958, Nippon Kogaku packed a full-scale microscope capable of 100x oil immersion, phase contrast ...

Researchers in Japan have shown that a surface step only one atom high can act like a rail for quantum vortices, allowing the ...

Quantum dots have spent two decades in the spotlight as tiny semiconductor crystals whose colors can be dialed in simply by ...

Chemists have long faced an awkward trade-off at the heart of asymmetric catalysis. Homogeneous catalysts, in which every ...

Indeed, in the collapse against LASK, the captain was arguably the brightest performer, the 33-year-old lasting the full 120 ...

Direct visualization of hydrogen—the smallest and lightest element—in complex materials remains a fundamental challenge.

Cryo–electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has revolutionized structural biology by enabling imaging of macromolecular complexes at near-atomic resolution, but its success depends critically on specimen ...

A type of transformation best known for hardening steel and enabling shape-memory alloys may also occur in a much softer ...