An international team of physicists has for the first time observed magnetic behaviour in an atomic gas, addressing a decades-old debate as to whether it is possible for a gas or liquid... — full story
A tiny grid pattern has led materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Institute of Solid State Physics in Russia to an unexpected finding... — full story
Spanish and U.S. physicists studying nanoelectronics have found that size really does matter when it comes to predicting the behaviour of electrical contacts that are just one atom... — full story
When squeezed, electrons increase their ability to move around. In compounds such as semiconductors and electrical insulators, such squeezing can dramatically change the electrical-... — full story
What is there to see inside a magnet that's smaller than the head of a pin? Quite a lot, say physicists who've invented a new kind of MRI technique to do just that... — full story
Materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a process to build complex, three-dimensional nanoscale structures of magnetic materials... — full story
Micropositioning using shape memory materialsA research team from the Department of Electricity and Electronics at the University of the Basque Country's Faculty of Science and Technology in Leioa, led by Victor Etxebarria, is... — full story
Path for designing novel nanomaterialsA University of Arkansas researcher and his colleagues have found a novel way to 'look' at atomic orbitals, and have directly shown for the first time that they change substantially... — full story