Perovskite crystals can dramatically and reversibly change shape when hit with light, a behavior not seen in conventional semiconductors. This effect, called photostriction, can be finely tuned ...

Scientists have taken lasers beyond light and into the realm of sound, creating a breakthrough “phonon laser” that ...

Robert Oppenheimer himself sent a letter to her inviting her to spend an academic year at the Institute of Advanced Studies ...

Harbin Engineering University has become the first Chinese higher education institution to receive an International Nuclear ...

Monash University researchers have captured the exact atomic movements that write data to next-generation memory devices, which could pave the way for ...

At the height of the Cold War, nuclear weapons were seen not only as devices of destruction, but also as tools for progress.

In biology, defects are generally bad. But in materials science, defects can be intentionally tuned to give materials useful ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State physicist has achieved a significant scientific advancement, producing a direct laboratory measurement of a key nuclear reaction believed to occur during ...