An atomic force microscope can be used as a single-electron current meter, according to new experiments by researchers at IBM. The technique, which measures the energy levels of single molecules on ...

A team of physicists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in Menlo Park, California, generated the highest-current, highest-peak-power electron beams ever produced. The team has published ...

(Nanowerk News) Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and collaborators at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Alabama at Birmingham have discovered a new ...

The steady tick of a clock usually feels simple and dependable. Something swings or vibrates in a controlled rhythm and marks ...

It’s not an electron. But it sure does act like one. Northwestern University researchers have made a strange and startling discovery that nanoparticles engineered with DNA in colloidal crystals — when ...

Physicists working on the Borexino detector in Italy have been searching for evidence of electrons decaying into photons and neutrons. Alas, they did not find any evidence of such a decay; however, ...

Nuclear fusion, which operates on the same principle that powers the sun, is expected to become a sustainable energy source ...