The US has installed a custom-made electron microscope that has the potential to transform ...

When Dr. Amanda Stadermann loads a meteorite sample into the Department of Earth and Environmental Science’s new scanning ...

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This atomic force microscope is really cool because it's different than any other microscope I've ever used. Instead of using ...

In most everyday materials, such as copper, silver and silicon, the behavior of electrons is relatively predictable. In ...

Researchers reveal how electronic patterns emerge and can be controlled in the graphene-like quantum material cerium ...

In searches for past and present Martian life, some scientists say we’ve been too cautious to see what’s right in front of us ...

In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN senior editor Laurel Oldach about a laser phase ...

Scientists switched a quantum material's electronic pattern from stripes to a checkerboard using only a tiny magnetic nudge.

China has built Asia's first fourth-generation circular synchrotron radiation facility, often called a "dream microscope," ...

In the quantum realm, getting electrons to march to the same beat is famously ...

A massive circular facility that takes about 10 minutes to circle by bus. This is the fourth-generation circular synchrotron ...