Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime produced by violent cosmic events, such as the merging of black holes. So far, ...

In an advance they consider a breakthrough in computational chemistry research, University of Wisconsin–Madison chemical engineers have developed model of how catalytic reactions work at the atomic ...

Physicists in China have demonstrated that a structure called an optical metasurface can individually trap up to 78,400 ...

New first-principles simulations reveal how metallic surfaces reshape nanoscale vibrational imaging, advancing the interpretation of tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. (Nanowerk News) Probing the ...

Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter At the nanoscale all atoms vibrate. These vibrations define heat dissipation, chemical reactions, and material properties. The different ...