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 ...
New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, patterns.
Confining and rotating extremely cold atoms or molecules within atomic “Ferris wheels” made from laser light could test ...
The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer ...
Just published in Nature, the Google team’s findings demonstrate what it says is the first-ever verifiable capability by a ...
Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...
Mole Day 2025 is celebrated on 23 October to honor Avogadro’s number (6.022×10²³) and promote awareness of chemistry and the ...
High-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM) is the only experimental technique to directly watch proteins in dynamic action.
Developed by researchers at MIT, the method uses the atom’s own electrons as “messengers” within a molecule to help probe ...