Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1986, American physicist Arthur Ashkin developed a fascinating tool that could gently pick and move microscopic objects like ...

One of the most frequently asked questions about quantum computers is a simple one: When will they be useful? If you talk to people in the field, you’ll generally get a response in the form of another ...

In a variety of technological applications related to chemical energy generation and storage, atoms and molecules diffuse and react on metallic surfaces. Being able to simulate and predict this motion ...

Researchers from Germany, Japan and India, led by scientists from DESY and the Universities of Kiel and Hamburg, have found a way to collectively make molecules on a flat surface rotate by exposing ...

Research into chiral molecules has long been driven by the quest to understand the subtle differences between enantiomers—molecules that are mirror images yet non-superimposable. Recent advances in ...

The authors declare no competing interests. The research was supported by the Sydney Horizon Fellowship program, the Wellcome Leap Quantum for Bio program, the Australian Research Council, the US ...

“Through this study, we were able to find clues about how electrons behave when they pass through the atomic wall,” stated Professor Dong Eon Kim. Physicists have been mystified for more than a ...

Protons, the positively charged particles that help build every atom in our bodies, are starting to look less like classical billiard balls and more like quantum actors. A growing body of research now ...

When things vibrate, they make sounds. Molecules do too, but at frequencies far beyond human hearing. Chemical bonds stretch, bend and twist at characteristic rates that fall in the infrared region of ...