Scientists reveal how two unstable nuclei trigger neutron star explosions and power intense X-ray bursts across the universe.

Like bakers measuring the exact same amount of flour every time they made bread, physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have used a laser trap to consistently capture and measure the same ...

Kurzgesagt has a neat new explainer: “How small is an atom?” I watched it. It does a great job at giving you an idea of how small atoms are and how they work. But it doesn’t matter, because my brain ...

Physicists have developed new technology to study atomic vibration in small particles, revealing a more accurate picture of the structure of atomic clusters where surface atoms vibrate more ...

For the first time, physicists have captured images of isolated atoms freely interacting in space. This breakthrough validates century-old theoretical predictions about the quantum behavior of matter.

While natural atoms are small and point-like with respect to the wavelength of light they interact with, in a paper published in the journal Nature, the researchers show that this need not be the case ...

Beams of electrons and ultra-intense x-rays give complementary information about hydrogen atoms in small organic molecules Extremely intense x-ray pulses can determine the positions of some hydrogen ...

One of the more laborious scientific enterprises of the last few decades has been the development of gravity wave detectors. These detectors, which are supposed to pick up the tiny ripples in ...