Julian Klein and Frances Ross explain how electron microscopes are becoming tools for engineering defects inside crystalline materials.

The discovery of a thermal version of the Hall effect in common semiconductors challenges our understanding of how magnetic ...

Researchers have proposed that long-range molecular dipole correlations alter water’s electrical properties when it’s confined in a gap a few nanometers wide. In 2018, researchers confined a film of ...

A new technique for generating solid fibers from a liquid jet is easier to model—and thus easier to control—than past methods ...

The shape of gold nanostructures changes depending on how they are imaged. This electron-microscope image shows a nanosized cube wrapped in a gold layer. The tiny package is the result of reactions ...

Simplified models of systems with fast and slow dynamics can miss a narrow region of phase space—a “singular funnel”—leading to misleading predictions of the system’s behavior. Figure 1: Systems ...

Researchers observe atoms trapped in an optical lattice mimicking particles created in a strong electric field. In physics, you can get something from nothing. In a strong electric field, electrons ...

A decades-old neutrino mystery might be solved not by undiscovered physics but by improved calculations. For more than 30 years, scientists have found that roughly 20% fewer electron neutrinos are ...