On August 6, 1945, the sky above the Japanese city of Hiroshima opened. A blinding flash, then a deafening sonic boom. An entire city pulverized in seconds. Thus began the nuclear age. Today, 80 years ...

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Crystallography is the science of analyzing the pattern produced by shining an X-ray beam through a material sample. A powder sample produces a different pattern than solid crystal. One longstanding ...

(Nanowerk News) National University of Singapore (NUS) scientists have demonstrated a general approach for characterising the atomic structure, and electronic and magnetic properties of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the late 19th century, the Russian ...

The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth's atmosphere. As a result of that intense pressure, materials can adopt unexpected structures and properties.

It would be nice to believe that throughout the Cold War, which lasted from 1947 until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the world avoided any potential catastrophes that could have led to World ...

UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that helps ...