No one can control the weather, but certain clouds can be deliberately triggered to release rain or snow. The process, known as cloud seeding, typically involves dispersing small silver iodide ...
A team of UC Riverside engineers has discovered why a key solid-state battery material stays remarkably cool during operation ...
Scientists find that natural iron minerals can speed up the breakdown of toxic plastic additives in the environment.
Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy—a specialized imaging technique that looks for a change in the color of intense ...
The hyperfine structure of radium monofluoride has been measured by researchers in the US and elsewhere with such precision ...
If you think of a single atom as a grain of sand, then a wavelength of visible light - which is a thousand times larger than ...
Scientists have taken another giant step towards building the most precise clock ever imagined—one that could display not ...
Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atom's nucleus, using the atom's own electrons as "messengers" ...
New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, patterns.
Just published in Nature, the Google team’s findings demonstrate what it says is the first-ever verifiable capability by a ...