Borosilicate glass offers extreme stability; Microsoft’s accelerated aging experiments suggest the data would be stable for ...

Boffins at the software king of the world, Microsoft, have emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a piece of glass which they say can store data for more than 10,000 years. In Nature on 18 February ...

Light can hit a lead halide perovskite crystal that is anything but pristine and still end up as useful electric current.

Physically magnifying objects using a key moisture-absorbing ingredient in diapers has opened an unprecedented view of the microbial world. When you slip a slide under a microscope, a system of glass ...

Physicists in Leiden have built a microscope that can measure no fewer than four key properties of a material in a single scan, all with nanoscale precision. The instrument can even examine complete ...

You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, while X-rays reveal its internal structures and infrared captures a ...

Located somewhere beyond the orbit of Neptune, this mysterious object lies within the Kuiper Belt, a ring-shaped region of ...