According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important ...

Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy—a ...

MIT researchers found that metals retain hidden atomic patterns once believed to vanish during manufacturing. These patterns ...

MIT researchers found that a hidden atomic order can persist in metals even after they undergo extreme processing. For ...

From computer chips to quantum dots—technological platforms were only made possible thanks to a detailed understanding of the ...

(1) MR- CANDLEK'S two volumes upon atomic spectra will appeal to the spectroscopist rather than to the general reader. As the title implies, the whole work is developed on the vector model of the atom ...

TOKYO, Oct. 17, 1964 (UPI) -- Chairman Mao Tse-Tung maintains that Communist China has nothing to fear from nuclear weapons. But his people have paid a fearful price to develop the atomic bomb of ...

Metal-organic frameworks can store huge amounts of gas in a tiny space—enabling advances that could help humans fight climate ...

Plutonium has captured the attention of scientists since its discovery in the early 1940s. This enigmatic element has an important role to play in emerging energy technologies like nuclear batteries ...

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