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

A new AI model generates realistic synthetic microscope images of atoms, providing scientists with reliable training data to accelerate materials research and atomic scale analysis.

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 ...

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 ...

This festive season, as we adorn ourselves with gold and silver, few realise that these precious metals were born in the ...

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

Research suggests some metals’ semicore electrons may be more active on Earth’s surface than previously thought.

A researcher Heikki Mäntysaari from the University of Jyväskylä (Finland), has been part of an international research group that has made significant advances in modeling heavy ion collisions. New ...

You probably learned in high school chemistry class that core electrons don't participate in chemical bonding.

Atomic imaging shows graphene nanoribbons retain atomic structure and adjustable electronic alignment after transfer to ...