Next-generation technology requires next-generation materials that can be tailored to exact mission requirements. Additive ...

Researchers with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have created an innovative method to visualize and analyze atomic structures ...

Entangled atoms, separated in space, are giving scientists a powerful new way to measure the world with stunning precision.

Crystallography is the science of analyzing the pattern produced by shining an X-ray beam through a material sample. A powder sample produces a different pattern than solid crystal. One longstanding ...

Motionless atoms can trap liquid metal in a strange new state that shouldn’t exist. Scientists have discovered that a liquid does not always behave the way it seems. Even when a material is fully ...

A new chart for highly charged ions (HCIs) has been proposed, aiming to replicate the conventional periodic table’s ...

Different atoms and ions possess characteristic energy levels. Like a fingerprint, they are unique for each species. Among ...

The intermediate range order of covalent glasses has been extensively studied in terms of the first sharp diffraction peak (FSDP), but the direct observation of the atomic density fluctuations that ...

For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more ...