Understanding how a crack grows in metal requires simultaneously calculating the behavior of hundreds of billions of atoms: ...

Monash University researchers have captured the exact atomic movements that write data to next-generation memory devices, ...

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have uncovered a new way to manipulate unusual magnetic states by exploiting “frustration” inside a crystal’s atomic structure. The team discovered a rare system where ...

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 ...

Aaron Rossini of Iowa State and Ames National Laboratory with the nuclear magnetic resonance instrument in his Hach Hall lab. Iowa State University/Christopher Gannon. Iowa State's Aaron Rossini has ...

Researchers have visualized atoms in motion just before a radiation-driven decay process occurs, revealing a surprisingly ...

In the air people breathe, the water on Earth, the stars in the sky and more, atoms are the building blocks that make up the ...

A team at Monash University has recorded, for the first time, the atom-by-atom rearrangements that occur when data is written ...

Scientists are exploring a new type of optical atomic clock based on ytterbium-173 ions that could help define the future standard for measuring time.