Tiles made of metamaterials could make ground-based telescopes far more sensitive to the cosmic microwave...

Highly ordered nanopatterns spontaneously form on the surface of alloys as the metal solidifies. This...

A method of optically selecting and sorting nanoparticles according to their quantum mechanical properties has...

A nanodiamond-based sensor that measures the thermal conductivity of living cells at subcellular resolution could...

Fluorescent carbon quantum dots have been used to determine when fresh mackerel have spoiled. The...

Researchers in the US, Poland and Korea have observed photon avalanching – a chain-reaction-like process in which the absorption of a...

Atomic aperture of WS2. Courtesy: R Boya Gases flow through a porous membrane at ultrahigh speeds...

Why do some thin films of single-wall carbon nanotubes take on colourful hues even though...

Researchers have observed three-dimensional magnetic vortex rings in a real-world magnetic material for the first time. Contrary to theoretical predictions, these...

A new label-free optical imaging technique based on unscattered light can detect nanoparticles as small...

Researchers in the US and Israel have developed a way to make 3D superconducting nanostructures...

On the nanoscale, objects warm up faster than they cool down. That is the surprising conclusion of Alessio Lapolla and Aljaž Godec at the...