This short film takes you inside one of Spain’s premier materials science research facilities – the Materials Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM). Managed by Spain’s...

Important insights into the mechanisms underlying spiral nanostructure formation in solidifying metal alloys have been gained by Ashwin Shahani at the University of Michigan...

A glass sphere about 150 nm in diameter has been cooled to its motional quantum ground state using optical tweezers. The feat was performed by...

Optical sensors that work in the mid- to long infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum have a host of applications, including gas sensing, thermal...

The effect of rapid rotation on a single quantum spin in a piece of diamond has been measured for the first time. Alexander Wood...

Fragments of fungal cells just 30 nm across have been found in the atmosphere at concentrations much higher than expected, according to experiments by...

Artificial intelligence has been used to quickly and accurately model the 3D flow of light around arbitrarily shaped nanoparticles. Peter Wiecha and Otto Muskens...

A way of using light to convert a normal optical material into a frequency doubler has been developed by Mohammad Taghinejad and colleagues at...

A textile coated with metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) could make an efficient anti-nerve agent material, according to experiments by researchers at Northwestern University in the...

A new technique to make ultra-flat, wrinkle-free films of graphene could pave the way for a host of applications, including graphene-based flexible electronics and...

A laser-driven electron accelerator that is integrated on a chip has been created by Jelena Vučković and colleagues at Stanford University. The device was...