Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) can help scientists determine the three-dimensional structure of proteins in unprecedented detail. Jacques Dubochet, former group leader at EMBL, shared the 2017 ...

Physicists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have examined a fundamental property of quantum mechanics in ...

Abhishek Mall from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg (MPSD) and his colleagues ...

Advanced imaging techniques have evolved to see beyond the diffraction limit. W. E. Moerner spoke to Nature Photonics about the techniques involved. For near-field optics, super-resolution has been ...

A software workflow automates X-ray analysis to spot crystal defects in diamond and advanced semiconductors, helping improve ...

A new nanopatterned structure based on sub-wavelength physics has proved its value in a real-world setting, and it could ...

The world’s rarest mineral does not look especially imposing at first glance. It is a faceted orange gem, just 1.

Since the 1980s, researchers have sought to use laser light to control chemical reactions relevant to photochemistry, ...

Earth and the Moon both record evidence of a 'lost' period of bombardment. (NASA) Tiny crystal grains trapped inside a ...

Researchers demonstrate a fabrication process of yttrium aluminum garnet doped with cerium 3D micro-objects, producing ...

Halogen bonds are robust and tuneable enough to build permanently porous frameworks, new research shows. The findings ...