Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize, said that if he could pass on only one piece of scientific information to future generations, it would be that all things are ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Understanding how atoms form is a fundamental and important question, since they make up ...

If you think of a single atom as a grain of sand, then a wavelength of visible light—which is a thousand times larger than ...

Getting atoms to do what you want isn’t easy — but it’s at the heart of a lot of ground-breaking research in physics. Creating and controlling the behavior of new forms of matter is of particular ...

Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were previously too close together to look like anything but a blob ...

In this state, trillions or more electrons effectively behave like a single entity, resembling the mass collections of atoms that form everyday objects like pendulums or billiard balls. To observe the ...

A type of hydrogen that doesn't interact with light could explain how long neutrons live and reveal the identity of the ...

Imagine a knot so small that it can’t be seen with the naked eye. Then think even smaller. Chemists have tied together just 54 atoms to form the smallest molecular knot yet. Described January 2 in ...

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Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Stephen L. Levy, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE CONVERSATION ...