Nanowerk

Atomic scale features explain why some rare earth magnets resist demagnetization

Atomic scale copper rich layers inside rare earth magnets suppress demagnetization, improving strength, stability, and ...
Nanowerk

Atomic-scale channels destroy water pollutants that treatment plants cannot touch

Copper atoms trapped in MXene nanochannels remove 94.9% of bisphenol A in 5 minutes by concentrating reactants and lowering ...

Stanford’s Light Breakthrough Could Finally Make Quantum Computers Scale

A new way of capturing light from atoms could finally unlock ultra-powerful, million-qubit quantum computers. After decades of effort, researchers may finally be closing in on a practical path toward ...
PV Tech

Australia’s UNSW reveals atomic-scale self-repair mechanism in silicon solar cells

Researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, have directly observed how silicon solar cells can self ...

Scientists use ultrafast laser to flip materials into a different electronic state

A burst of invisible light can do more than illuminate a surface. In a new study, Michigan State University researchers used ...

Metal clumps in a quantum state: Physicists place thousands of sodium atoms in a 'Schrödinger's cat state'

Can a small lump of metal be in a quantum state that extends over distant locations? A research team at the University of Vienna answers this question with a resounding yes. In the journal Nature, ...
EurekAlert!

Tracking atoms during fuel cell cycles: KAIST team reveals the atomic-scale secret behind fuel cell catalyst durability

Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles have long been hailed as the future of clean mobility: cars that emit nothing but water while delivering high efficiency and power density. Yet a stubborn obstacle remains.
Morningstar

Atom Computing selected by DARPA for the next stage of exploring near-term utility-scale quantum computing with neutral atoms

BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Atom Computing has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to proceed to the next stage of exploring how Atom's ...
Science Daily

Researchers trap atoms, forcing them to serve as photonic transistors

Researchers have developed a means to realize cold-atom integrated nanophotonic circuits. Researchers at Purdue University have trapped alkali atoms (cesium) on an integrated photonic circuit, which ...
Science Daily

Physicists arrange atoms in extremely close proximity

Physicists developed a technique to arrange atoms in much closer proximity than previously possible, down to 50 nanometers. The group plans to use the method to manipulate atoms into configurations ...