Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

Scientists have discovered a new way of creating superheavy elements by firing supercharged ion beams at dense atoms. The team believes this method could potentially help synthesize the hypothetical ...

Now you know that atoms are really small and that there are huge numbers of them, but here are a few other atom facts you might find interesting. Where do atoms come from? Believe it or not, the atoms ...

The U.S. is full of nuclear physics laboratories and most of them, even in the universities, work on secret projects for the armed services or the Atomic Energy Commission. Armed men guard the ...

So long as U-235, the explosive isotope in natural uranium, was hard to get, only the biggest powers could afford nuclear bombs. Now everybody—Mao, Castro, Nasser or whoever—may soon be able ...

Quantum physics continues to astound with its breakthroughs, and a recent achievement by MIT researchers is no exception.

"Atoms come together to form nanocrystals ... enabling cutting-edge studies in materials science, nanofabrication, and nanophotonics for scientific and technological advancements.

But until now the elusive substance has been almost impossible to analyse because its atoms move around so much. Now scientists have a workaround - freezing it with lasers. "Physicists are in love ...

In a recent article published in MIT News, researchers directly observed edge states in a cloud of ultracold atoms. They ...

Atoms inside the material follow a fixed arrangement ... a puzzle listed in 1997 as one of the "three mysteries of surface ...