Scanning tunnelling microscopy is a powerful tool for mapping the contours of surfaces on the atomic scale. A fine metallic tip hovers just above the surface of the sample, and a voltage is applied ...

Magnetism in two-dimensional materials is difficult to characterize because the materials’ extreme thinness renders conventional techniques ineffective. Researchers in Australia, Russia and China have ...

The QDM is a fantastic and easy-to-use tool that can access length-scales and sensitivity of measurement that were previously inaccessible.” — Dr. James Bryson, Assistant Professor of Mineralogy at ...

LONDON (Reuters) - In a small workshop behind London's bustling Oxford Circus, a team of goldsmiths file, solder and polish the metal castings that in a few hours will become dazzling diamond rings.

Amsterdam - The diamond industry, under scrutiny after supermodel Naomi Campbell's war crimes testimony and a crisis in Zimbabwe, must take decisive measures to avoid a potential return of conflict ...

An imaging method employing a diamond-based sensor could allow enhanced mapping of the brain's neural activity. Developed at the University of Melbourne, the new device is based on voltage imaging, a ...

Researchers from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) at Mumbai and Kharagpur have built a microscope that can image magnetic fields within microscopic two-dimensional samples that change over ...

(Nanowerk News) Proteins are the building blocks of all living things, and they exist in virtually unlimited varieties, most of whose highly complex structures have not yet been determined. Those ...

FEI has announced its largest order for Life Sciences - Diamond Light Source, one of the most advanced synchrotron light sources in the world, has ordered two Titan Krios™ cryo transmission electron ...