Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists in Germany have shed light on how nanoscale imaging techniques like tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) can be ...

Heat is supposed to need something to cling to, whether vibrating atoms in a metal rod or infrared light streaming from a hot stove. Yet a series of recent experiments suggests that empty space is not ...

Scientists at three research institutions capture the pulsing motion of atoms in diamond, uncovering the relationship between the diamond's strain and the behavior of the quantum information hosted ...

For the first time, mechanical motion has been used to make atoms in a gas "spin," scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report. The technique eventually might be ...

MIT physicists have discovered a new quantum bit, or “qubit,” in the form of vibrating pairs of atoms known as fermions. They found that when pairs of fermions are chilled and trapped in an optical ...

Probing the vibration of atoms provides detailed information on local structure and bonding that define material properties. Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) offers extremely high resolution to ...

(Nanowerk News) A team of researchers from the Universities of Manchester, Nottingham and Loughborough have discovered quantum phenomena that helps to understand the fundamental limits of graphene ...