Colored diamonds, particularly high-quality blues and pinks, have always commanded top dollar. But the recent action at the auctions and among high-end dealers indicates that — as often happens in ...

Oxides exhibit an amazing series of crystal frameworks, consisting of easy binary forms like alumina (Al ₂ O FOUR) and silica ...

A new coating for glass developed by Rice University researchers and collaborators could help reduce energy bills, especially ...

As summer kicks into full gear and people are spending more time outside, there's one thing on many people's minds—ticks.

The present state of our knowledge of the elements of atomic structure was reached, however, by the discovery of the atomic nucleus, which we owe to Rutherford, whose work on the radioactive ...

News Published: 16 June 1934 Possible Production of Elements of Atomic Number Higher than 92 PROF. E. FERMI Nature 133, 898–899 (1934) Cite this article ...

Determining complete atomic structures directly from microscopy images remains a long-standing challenge in materials science. MicroscopyGPT is a vision-language model (VLM) that leverages multimodal ...

Cryo-EM is a technique that allows researchers to determine the 3D structure of proteins and viruses at near atomic resolution. With cryo-EM, researchers can see every molecule in the virus, enabling ...

Single-atom dynamics of noble-gas elements have been investigated using time-resolved transmission electron microscopy (TEM), with direct observation providing for a deeper understanding of chemical ...

The Mameico Salt Lake is located in Gerze County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet. The total estimated investment for the project is 4.537 billion yuan, all of which is funded by enterprises. The product plan ...

In this paper, a top-hat transformation module is implemented for infrared small target detection. The top-hat algorithm uses two different structure elements in erosion and dilation. Erosion ...

Pile-type subgrade is a new type of subgrade structure proposed in recent years, compared with the soil roadbed, it has the advantages of small post-construction settlement, high overall rigidity and ...