Being able to rotate a molecule of oxygen on command could lead to a new concept of data storage, say scientists at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Working with a "homemade" scanning tunneling ...

(Nanowerk News) The peculiar topological properties of some forms of matter have been researched for decades. Now, researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have discovered ...

A team of researchers led by the University of Virginia in the USA has discovered that rotating molecules within a solar are one of the key mechanisms behind the high levels of conversion efficiency ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg have visualised vibration and rotation in the nuclei of a hydrogen molecule as a quantum mechanical wave packet. What is more, ...

(Nanowerk News) You can easily rotate a baseball in your hand by twisting your fingers. But you need inventive scientists with access to world-class scientific facilities to rotate an object that is ...

Swansea researchers have developed a new method to stop a molecule from rotating using ultra-low energy, shedding new light on molecule-surface interactions. While invisible to the naked eye, we are ...

What happens when a molecule collides with a surface? Researchers at Swansea University have shown that the orientation of the molecule as it moves - whether it is spinning like a helicopter blade or ...

In this week's Nature, researchers in the Netherlands unveil a nanomotor that can rotate objects 10,000 times its size. Researchers in The Netherlands have created a nanomotor that can rotate ...