September 30, 2013

Nanoscale chips with a length of only 3 mm, consisting of compressed silica glass, are used to accelerate electrons to a speed ten times higher than that obtained today in normal accelerators. (Brad Plummer/SLAC)

Chip-sized particle accelerators

DNA nanotechnology. Illustration: shutterstock

Will the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001 win again this year?

The terrible chimpanzee beats humans in a memory game against a computer. Photo: Tokyo Institute of Technology

The chimpanzee is allowed from the human