How do atoms form? A physicist explains where the atoms that make up everything around come from

Why did they form at that time? Astronomers know from observing distant exploding stars that the size of the universe has ...
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MIT physicists just found a way to see inside atoms

MIT researchers have devised a new molecular technique that lets electrons probe inside atomic nuclei, replacing massive particle accelerators with a tabletop setup. By studying radium monofluoride, ...

Physicists Revive 150-Year-Old ‘Knot’ Theory to Explain Matter-Antimatter Mystery

If these knots had a slight bias toward matter over antimatter, their unraveling could help explain the matter-antimatter ...

Astronomers expose CO-dark molecular gas, previously invisible to telescopes

An international team of astronomers has created the first-ever large-scale maps of a mysterious form of matter, known as ...

With a new molecule-based method, physicists peer inside an atom's nucleus

Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atom's nucleus, using the atom's own electrons as "messengers" ...