Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created a new and unusual state of matter—known as a supersolid—by ...

The vacuum ultraviolet region is the area of the electromagnetic spectrum lying between X-rays and visible light. It is ...

A new ultrathin photodetector captures light across the full spectrum in just 125 picoseconds, opening the door to faster, smarter imaging technologies.

Diagnosing some diseases could be as easy as breathing into a tube. MIT engineers have developed a test to detect ...

A theoretical study accepted by Physical Review Letters predicts that gravitational waves, the faint ripples in spacetime ...

For centuries, astronomers faced the challenge of classifying objects in space based on their appearance. When observing an ...

Photothermal AFM-IR combines atomic force microscopy and infrared spectroscopy to reveal chemical heterogeneity and structural features at the nanoscale.

MIT physicists have built a powerful new microscope that uses terahertz light to uncover hidden quantum motions inside superconductors. By compressing this normally unwieldy light into a tiny region, ...

Using a new method, physicists found a way to 'catapult' electrons across solar materials in quadrillionths of a second.

Photothermal AFM-IR technology provides spatially resolved infrared spectroscopy for detailed compositional mapping of ...

Minutes matter when a surgeon is deciding how much tissue to remove. Yet for centuries, medical imaging has leaned on stains ...