2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (682+ words) Within tiny halos of light clinging to a vanishingly thin wisp of optical fiber, scientist Jongmin Lee guides atoms like marbles through a narrow pipe. Rock the fiber and the atoms shift side by side; they just don't fall off....

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (393+ words) "Nuclear reactors are designed to operate for several decades, but we cannot wait that long to understand how materials will hold up in extreme nuclear environments," said Mehmet Topsakal, a materials scientist in the Nuclear Science and Security Department at…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (496+ words) Electrochemical research often requires more than current, potential and time data alone. While a potentiostat provides essential control and measurement of the electrochemical experiment, it does not directly identify the gases or volatile species being produced during a reaction. Differential…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (396+ words) A research team at the University of Vienna led by physicist Jani Kotakoski demonstrates how the shape of nanopores in hexagonal boron nitride - the electrically insulating counterpart to graphene, also known as "white graphene" - can be precisely controlled at the…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (533+ words) The Action brought together scientists, engineers and industry experts who had never collaborated before. It created a strong European network that pushed aerogels into the spotlight with new discoveries, growing global recognition and ideas that reshaped the field. Aerogels were…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (340+ words) Researchers asked whether beneficial bacteria could claim a metal surface before destructive microbes take hold, opening a new way to think about how living coatings might control corrosion. The researchers used high-purity copper as the model metal and prepared its…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (162+ words) It's challenging for scientists to monitor chemical processes at nuclear facilities in real time. In this study, scientists developed new techniques to analyze chemical solutions in complex environments. The. These models draw information about chemical systems from real-life data. The…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (244+ words) Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced the Thermo Scientific™ EMPAD™ G2 detector, a new detector designed to help researchers see and understand materials in unprecedented detail. EMPAD G2 enables high-speed four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D STEM),…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1250+ words) Bird feathers’ coloration stems from a combination of pigmentation and microstructural optical effects functioning at spatial scales ranging from whole barbs down to individual barbules just a handful of microns across. Characterizing these microscopic structures’ spectral reflectance necessitates the use…...

3+ week, 9+ hour ago   (256+ words) The study examines whether elemental mixing can produce neutronic cocktail effects. These effects occur when a material’s neutron-attenuation behavior differs from that expected from its individual elements. The effect is particularly important in nuclear systems, where controlling neutron transport is…...