Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden discovered a new phenomenon that changes what we know about nuclear fission.

As summer kicks into full gear and people are spending more time outside, there's one thing on many people's minds—ticks.

Scientists at ETH Zurich have developed a powerful method to look deep inside single-atom catalysts—materials where every ...

One longstanding problem has sidelined life-saving drugs, stalled next-generation batteries, and kept archaeologists from identifying the origins of ancient artifacts. For more than 100 years, ...

Scientists at Columbia Engineering have created a machine learning algorithm that can observe the pattern produced by nanocrystals to infer the material’s atomic structure, as described in a ...

The Atomic Spectroscopy Group studies how atoms absorb or emit light, allowing researchers to identify the elements present in a given sample. It then collects and updates those calculations in ...

Image from Wikemedia Commons. Many materials have their atoms arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure — a crystal — including most metals, rocks, ceramics and ice, among others.

Feb 12, 2025 New insights into the structure of atomic nuclei (Nanowerk News) When world-leading teams join forces, new findings are bound to be made. This is what happened when quantum physicists ...

Both rubies and emeralds are minerals, which is a type of rock with a consistent chemical composition and a highly ordered structure at the atomic level.

Education News: Niels Bohr's Nobel Lecture on December 11, 1922, titled The Structure of the Atom, is one of the most significant contributions to our understanding o.

Atomic nuclei, composed of protons and neutrons, hide quarks and gluons at their core. These latter particles, still challenging to study, have long eluded scientists. In the mid-20th century, ...