When current flows through a wire, it doesn't always have a perfect path. Tiny defects within the wire mean current must ...

A light pulse redirects electrons in an ultrathin layered material, creating a stable new state without heat or damage and ...

After a year of trial and error, Liyang Chen had managed to whittle down a metallic wire into a microscopic strand half the width of an E.coli bacterium — just thin enough to allow a trickle of ...

Researchers at Tohoku University, the University of Manchester, and Osaka University have made a breakthrough that has the ...