Probing the vibration of atoms provides detailed information on local structure and bonding that define material properties.

Scientists in Germany have shed light on how nanoscale imaging techniques like tip-enhanced Raman ...

The ability to describe the internal structure of atoms is important not only for understanding the composition of matter, but also for designing new experiments to explore fundamental physics.

New first-principles simulations reveal how metallic surfaces reshape nanoscale vibrational imaging, advancing the ...

Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) have developed a novel method for investigating the internal structure of atoms and discovered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many heavy atoms form from a supernova explosion, the remnants of which are shown in this image. NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team ...

Using single-atom-resolved microscopy, ultracold quantum gases composed of two types of atoms reveal distinctly different spatial correlations — the bosons on the left exhibit bunching, while the ...

An algorithm designed to find the most efficient path from atom to atom in a bizarre kind of crystal turns out to produce incredibly intricate mazes. As well as making mazes, the technique could help ...

Researchers have uncovered how atoms subtly rearrange themselves for up to a trillionth of a second before releasing ...

MIT physicists and colleagues have created a new material with unusual superconducting and metallic properties, thanks to wavy layers of atoms only billionths of a meter thick that repeat themselves ...