15-11-20 In certain nanomaterials, electrons are able to race through custom-built roadways just one atom wide. To achieve excellent efficiency, these one-dimensional paths must be paved with absolute perfection--a single errant atom can stop racing electron...

15-07-02 A team from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, along with collaborators from several Japanese institutions, have successfully produced pairs of spin-entangled electrons and demonstrated, for the first time, that these electrons remain ent...

14-11-25 Enzymes carry out fundamental biological processes such as photosynthesis, nitrogen fixation and respiration, with the help of clusters of metal atoms as active sites. But scientists lack basic information about their function because the states tho...

14-06-10 Think those flat, glassy solar panels on your neighbor's roof are the pinnacle（高峰，极点） of solar technology? Think again. Researchers in the University of Toronto's Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical Computer Engineering have designe...

13-12-24 New research published in the journal Nature resolves decades of scientific controversy over the origin of the extremely energetic particles known as ultra-relativistic electrons in Earth's near-space environment and is likely to influence our under...

11-04-21 Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed that Enceladus, one of Saturn's diminutive（小型的） moons, is linked to Saturn by powerful electrical currents - beams of electrons that flow back and forth between the planet and moon. The finding...

10-06-11 Cornell University researchers recently stretched（伸直，舒展） individual molecules and watched electrons flow through them, proving that single-molecule devices can be used as powerful new tools for nanoscale science experiments. The finding, repo...