At the smallest scales of nature, the rules of the world shift in ways that can feel unsettling and beautiful at the same ...

Physicists have finally watched positronium, a short‑lived atom made of an electron and its antimatter twin, behave like a rippling quantum wave instead of a tiny billiard ball. In a set of ...

Watching proteins move as they drive the chemical reactions that sustain life is one of the grand challenges of modern ...

It may sound like an oxymoron, but this massive nanoparticle made up of 7,000 sodium atoms is the largest to exhibit such ...

Applied physicists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated a new ...

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Watching proteins move as they drive the chemical reactions that sustain life is one of the grand challenges of modern biology.In recent years, X-ray ...

High-entropy alloys are promising advanced materials for demanding applications, but discovering useful compositions is difficult and expensive due to the vast number of possible element combinations.

Multidimensional electron microscopy refers to a family of advanced electron microscopy techniques that extend conventional imaging beyond static, two-dimensional pictures. Instead of recording ...

Auroras, shimmering bands of light that shoot through the night sky near the Earth’s poles, can follow patterns known as arcs ...