Researchers designed a photonic crystal that changes and records colors, heals itself, and adheres to surfaces, offering exciting possibilities for sensors and anti-counterfeiting.

A supernova observed in 1181, lost for centuries, was recently rediscovered. Its 3D structure and expansion speed show ...

Researchers developed a memristor with metal-dielectric layers that remembers electrical signals. Its metal-dielectric ...

A beautiful eight-minute animation created for Harvard biology students, gives a breathtaking glimpse of life at the molecular scale. The objective of this website is to introduce you to the tools ...

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Nanotechnology is a rapidly growing field with the potential to revolutionize many industries and aspects of daily life. By manipulating matter at the nanoscale (one nanometer is one billionth of a ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers from Queen Mary University of London and Paragraf Limited have demonstrated a significant step ...

(Nanowerk News) Kory Burns, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science, ...

The researchers demonstrate a novel, extremely high-performance spectrometer that can measure light with a 0.05 nanometers ...

As the tiny atomic force microscope probe scans the surface of a sample, it can discern what type of molecule is underneath.

A new type of absorbing material developed by chemists at the University of California, Berkeley, could help get the world to ...

Depicted in this artist’s rendering is the central black hole, V404 Cygni (black dot), in the process of consuming a nearby ...