A light pulse redirects electrons in an ultrathin layered material, creating a stable new state without heat or damage and ...

Having good neighbors can be very valuable—even in the atomic world. A team of Amsterdam physicists was able to determine an important property of strontium atoms, a highly useful element for modern ...

Objectives: To produce an easily understood and accessible tool for use by researchers in diagnostic studies. Diagnostic studies should have sample size calculations performed, but in practice, they ...

In statistics the term “population” has a slightly different meaning from the one given to it in ordinary speech. It need not refer only to people or to animate creatures – the population of Britain, ...

For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

At low temperatures, hydrogen atoms move less like particles and more like waves. This characteristic enables quantum ...

Scientists looked at how an electrical charge would move through a barrier of silicon, germanium and tin, part a quantum well. They thought the electrical charge would move more slowly, but mobility ...

Weighing 10 pounds, the PMCDS is a microscope and a spectrometer that can read the presence of amounts of substances smaller ...

Only rigorous mathematical tools to quantify the shape of cells can guarantee reliable results in coarse-grained descriptions of tissue dynamics.