Kanazawa gold leaf is a traditional Japanese material known for its remarkable thinness, just 100 nanometers—about 1/1,000 the diameter of a human hair—and its brilliant shine.

Scientists create microscopic gears powered by light, a breakthrough for chip-scale machines—promising, but still far from practical use.

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, patterns.

The team achieved a record-breaking coherence time of 12.6 seconds—the longest ever for hyperfine qubits in an optical tweezer array. They also maintained an imaging survival rate of 99.99%, meaning ...

Learn how the smallest motors in history could soon make a splash in healthcare thanks to microscopic gears that are powered by laser light.

Caltech scientists have built a record-breaking array of 6,100 neutral-atom qubits, a critical step toward powerful error-corrected quantum computers. The qubits maintained long-lasting superposition ...

The research is opening new frontiers in pest control and evolutionary biology. An international group of scientists has uncovered a strange tubular structure within Profftella, a bacterium that lives ...

Scientists made real plants glow by putting tiny light-storing particles into their leaves - no batteries or gene editing needed.