Watching gold's atomic structure change at 10 million times Earth's atmospheric pressure

The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth's atmosphere. As a result of that ...
Nature

Atomic-scale insights into the mystery of how ice surfaces melt

Water ice permanently coats 10% of Earth’s land surface 1, and atmospheric ice clouds surround about half of the planet. Ice surfaces thus rank among the most ubiquitous interfaces in the natural ...
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New control over atomic structure of perovskites could transform solar cells, LEDs, lasers

Researchers’ new method that delivers more control over halide perovskites could transform how solar cells, LEDs and lasers ...
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Understanding the Structure of Ice at the Sub-Atomic Scale

Researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) and the Abdus Salam ...
NPR

To explore deep space, scientists say we'll need better clocks. Here's why

It's Memorial Day, Short Wavers. This holiday, we bring you a meditation on time ... and clocks. There are hundreds of atomic clocks in orbit right now, perched on satellites all over Earth. We depend ...
New Scientist

How do you check the accuracy of an atomic clock?

Atomic clocks are based upon quartz crystals. These crystals vibrate at a very uniform rate when an electric current is passed through them. By measuring minute variations in those vibrations over ...