Only one side of a silver crystal has the right structure to trigger ice formation, revealing how these particles help clouds ...

Researchers uncover how the surface structure of silver iodide at the atomic scale triggers ice formation in clouds, ...

Left: scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) image of a tantalum (Ta) film showing an oxide layer above the atoms of crystalline Ta metal. Right: STEM imaging combined with computational ...

High-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM) is the only experimental technique to directly watch proteins in dynamic action. However, as a surface scanning technique with limited spatial resolution, ...

The hyperfine structure of radium monofluoride has been measured by researchers in the US and elsewhere with such precision ...