A new University of Maryland study has revealed a coordinated dance of microscopic particles—breaking up and clustering back ...

If you’re teeny tiny, like microscopic or even nanoscopic in size, existence can be hard. One example of a difficulty a particle of that size might face is how to transport the necessary nutrients ...

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin's School of Engineering have built a powerful new machine that lets us watch precisely what happens when tiny particles—far smaller than a grain of sand—hit a ...

An amorphous material is anything made of plastic or glass. When cooled, the atoms and molecules in amorphous materials never assemble to form crystals, unlike many other materials that freeze into ...

A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

Researchers have derived the governing equations that describe and explain the macroscopic mechanical behavior of elastomers filled with liquid inclusions directly in terms of their microscopic ...

A new dual-light microscope lets researchers observe micro- and nanoscale activity inside living cells without using dyes. The system captures both detailed structures and tiny moving particles at ...

Physicists show how microscopic particles can harness fluctuations and external forces to minimize transport energy and even extract usable work. A particle (red sphere) is guided from left to its ...