Physicists led by Johannes Roßnagel at the University of Mainz in Germany, the single atom engine is about as efficient as your car at transforming the changing temperature into mechanical energy.

Single atom controls motility required for bacterial infection Date: January 11, 2010 Source: University of North Carolina School of Medicine Summary: Researchers have discovered that a single atom -- ...

Physicists have developed an engine that you can’t see with the naked eye. In a paper published today in the journal Science, the research team from the University of Mainz and University of Kassel in ...

An incredible new engine is powered by just a single calcium atom, and by being so small it can run more efficiently than scientists had previously believed possible. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

Scientists have taken another giant step towards building the most precise clock ever imagined—one that could display not ...

Physicists have just built the smallest working engine ever created. It's a heat-powered motor barely larger than the single atom it runs on. Designed and build by a team of experimental physicists ...

Researchers from Michigan State University and the RIKEN Nishina Center in Japan discovered eight new rare isotopes of the elements phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, argon, potassium, scandium and, most ...

Last summer, when more than 8 million trillion calcium ions blasted a thin film of americium atoms nonstop for more than a month, the collisions generated four atoms of never-before-seen element 115, ...

The research team developed a genetically engineered mouse model carrying a mutation (E3896A) in RyR1, which disrupts its calcium-binding site, effectively disabling CICR while preserving ...

CHAPEL HILL – Bacteria can swim, propelling themselves through fluids using a whip-like extension called a flaggella. They can also walk, strolling along solid surfaces using little fibrous legs ...