When last we saw [xoreaxeax], he had built a lens-less optical microscope that deduced the structure of a sample by recording ...

The 'superionic ice' can't make up its mind between being a solid or liquid.

First experimental observation of matter-wave diffraction in a short-lived electronpositron atom using a graphene-based ...

“Positronium is the simplest atom composed of equal-mass constituents, and until it self-annihilates, it behaves as a neutral ...

For the first time, researchers from Tokyo University of Science have observed wave-like interference patterns from ...

A new lens-free imaging system uses software to see finer details from farther away than optical systems ever could before.

Water doesn’t behave the same way in a glass as it does as ice in your freezer. When water is heated to several thousand ...

During chemical reactions, atoms in the reacting substances break their bonds and re-arrange, forming different chemical products. This process entails the movement of both electrons (i.e., negatively ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have bedeviled physicists and chemists. Their atoms arrange ...