Werner Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle describes one of the most intriguing features of quantum physics: certain ...

A single ultrathin artificial skin lets robots sense both temperature and pressure at the same time while matching human ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has confirmed macromolecular carbon in two ancient mudstones in Jezero Crater, the widest organic ...

Dense clusters of crushed bird bones buried in Early Cretaceous rock in Gansu Province, China, have puzzled paleontologists ...

A new artificial skin enables robots to sense temperature and pressure simultaneously, bringing human-like touch capabilities closer to physical AI systems. Multimodal receptor, conformally attached ...

Stretching protein samples in all directions pulls molecules farther apart, allowing them to be visualized using only light ...

How large, fully folded proteins can pass through cell membranes without destroying them has long been one of the open questions in cell biology. Using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), Leonid ...

Nonlinear optical materials are essential for advanced photonics and laser technologies, but researchers are still searching ...

Cutting-edge ultrafast imaging has revealed ultrafast mechanical motion tied to a change in a layered material's magnetic state. This magnetic effect could have applications in nanodevices requiring ...

A computer-assisted design schematic showing how an electron beam is routed within a microscope. After going through the sample, it crosses a bright cyan beam representing the laser beam. A schematic ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Augmented-reality glasses and near-eye microdisplays need tightly packed light-emitting pixels. At that scale, a pattern can fail even when it looks correctly drawn. A narrow ...