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Penetrating x-rays can image defects and phase changes during battery charging and discharging.
Tiny “match-head” wires act as built-in light concentrators, enhancing solar cell efficiency.
For the first time, electron tomography reveals the 3D coordinates of individual atoms and defects in a material.
Scientists synthesized a theoretically-predicted material with unusual current-carrying properties that could open the door for next-generation electronics.
Simple human-made cellular analogues both sense and regulate in response to externally created stress.
Generating and moving small, stable magnetic islands at room temperature could be the ticket to more energy-efficient electronics.
Researchers harvest long-lived isotopes that are difficult or impossible to acquire otherwise.
Discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass, garners the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Novel experiments measure unusual thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen with a rare oxygen isotope.
First mixed matter/anti-matter probe aims to solve decade-old proton puzzle.
New electron spectroscopy technique may lead to an improved neutrino mass determination.
Researchers have attained superlubricity, the near absence of friction, at a carbon-silica interface using nanodiamonds wrapped in graphene flakes.
