A long-standing chemistry challenge has been solved with the synthesis of a five-atom silicon aromatic ring. The breakthrough validates decades of theory and points toward new industrially relevant ...

HydroInsight enhances the Mastersizer 3000, delivering real-time particle counting and concentration data for improved particle characterization workflows.

MIT.nano has added a new X-ray diffraction (XRD) instrument to its characterization toolset, enhancing facility users' ability to analyze materials at ...

By squeezing terahertz light beyond its usual limits, researchers have exposed hidden quantum "jiggles" inside a ...

Earth's core contains nine to 45 times more hydrogen than the planet's oceans do, according to a new study that could settle a debate about when and how hydrogen was delivered to Earth.

MIT physicists have built a new microscope that can see quantum motion inside superconductors ...

To capture higher-definition and sharper images of cosmological objects, astronomers sometimes combine the data collected by ...

Borosilicate glass offers extreme stability; Microsoft’s accelerated aging experiments suggest the data would be stable for ...

Q: What are diffraction gratings? A diffraction grating is an optical component for spectroscopy that splits light into different wavelengths. A typical diffraction grating has thousands of grooves ...

Atoms measure roughly 0.1 nanometers across, a scale so small that scientists spent more than six decades developing ...

Actinides are a group of heavy, radioactive elements that include uranium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium and ...

I n 2023, archaeologists excavating a burial mound near the town of Nördlingen in Bavaria, Germany hit pay dirt: a grave dating back to the Bronze Age containing the remains of a man, woman, and child ...