Additive nanomanufacturing applies 3D printing at the nanoscale, enabling precise fabrication for electronics, energy, ...

For most people, the magnifying-glass-shaped structure at Huairou Science City in Beijing is a high-end but inaccessible ...

Polymer thin-film optical cavities boost the magnetic sensing sensitivity of nanodiamond quantum sensors nearly fivefold ...

Researchers have pushed light control into a regime that used to belong strictly to theory, steering optical waves at the ...

Polarized light is one of the most powerful tools scientists have for peering inside matter, yet the way it twists, scatters ...

For years, the storage industry has relied on familiar assumptions with falling prices, rising density, and steady gains ...

A fully open-source platform provides a compact rheometer that can be easily combined with optical microscopy, allowing ...

A microscope that cost less than £50 and took under 3 hours to build using a common 3D printer could be transformative for ...

It’s relatively easy to understand how optical microscopes work at low magnifications: one lens magnifies an image, the next magnifies the already-magnified image, and so on until it reaches the eye ...

Imaging technology has transformed how we observe the universe—from mapping distant galaxies with radio telescope arrays to ...

In a study published in Nature Methods on December 2, a research team led by Profs. Xu Tao and Ji Wei from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a ...

Monitoring trace gases with high sensitivity and selectivity is essential for environmental safety and smart monitoring systems.