When you’ve got a scanning electron microscope sitting around, you’re going to find ways to push the awesome envelope. [Ben Krasnow] is upping his SEM game with a new rig to improve ima… ...

The Crab Nebula explosion in A.D. 1054 — which was widely recorded by astronomers and historians around the world — may indeed have been a rare electron-capture supernova, researchers claim.

Its remnants became the Crab Nebula. Prior work suggested this outburst, SN 1054, was an electron-capture supernova, but this was uncertain partly because it happened nearly a millennium ago.

Supernova 2018zd, marked with a white circle in the upper right corner, on the outskirts of galaxy NGC2146. It is the first confirmed case of an electron-capture supernova. Joseph Depasquale, STScI ...

Astronomers have found evidence of a rare electron-capture supernova for the first time, which could help solve a 1,000-year-old space mystery.

Now Wang, Crommie, and their teams have captured direct images of a new quantum phase of an electron solid—the Wigner molecular crystal. Their findings were reported in the journal Science.

Rare event: the XENON1T time projection chamber after assembly. (Courtesy: XENON Collaboration) An exotic and extremely rare nuclear decay that involves the simultaneous capture of two atomic ...

For the first time, researchers have directly observed an exotic type of radioactive decay called two-neutrino double electron capture. The decay, seen in xenon-124 atoms, happens so sparingly ...

Electron microscopes have been helping us see what the things around us are made of for decades. These microscopes use a beam of electrons to illuminate extremely small structures, but they can't ...