It’s been 37 years since scientists first demonstrated the ability to move single atoms, suggesting the possibility of designing materials atom by atom to customize their properties. Today ...

On May 1, we saw the world's smallest movie, which was made by IBM by moving around individual atoms to create a type of stop-motion film. Fast-forward a month, and another world's first has been ...

A long-predicted ultrafast isomerization in the UV photochemistry of bromoform is visualized for the first time by femtosecond time-resolved electron diffraction. At 267 nm excitation, the reaction ...

When you bend anything, you stretch the bonds between atoms and force the little fellas to move about against their will. This image shows exactly that happening, inside a sheet of glass. Just last ...

Watch what happens when the world’s thinnest sheet of glass breaks. Well, not exactly breaks, but close to it. Scientists have used an electron microscope to bend, deform and melt one molecule-thick ...

DARPA is rearranging atoms to produce better materials. The goal of the Atoms to Product (A2P) project is to assemble nanometer-scale pieces into useful materials. DARPA is conducting the work because ...

(Nanowerk News) Minerals that make up rocks and soils are thrown out of equilibrium when the chemistry of their surroundings changes. Shifts in pH or the concentration of ions in water make minerals ...

Watch what happens when you bend and break the world's thinnest glass. This glass was recently featured in the Guinness Book of World Records and is made of the same compounds as everyday windowpanes.

On the move: time sequence of the electron distribution of the molecule 1,3-cyclohexadiene after it is excited by a light pulse. (Courtesy: SLAC) Scientists in the US and UK are the first to observe ...