Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is, it was roughly ...

Research suggests some metals’ semicore electrons may be more active on Earth’s surface than previously thought.

Physicists got their first look at the structure of the atomic nucleus. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Geiger-Marsden ...

A new AI model generates realistic synthetic microscope images of atoms, providing scientists with reliable training data to accelerate materials research and atomic scale analysis.

Plutonium has captured the attention of scientists since its discovery in the early 1940s. This enigmatic element has an ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) At the scale of individual atoms, materials behave in ways that defy everyday intuition. Stretch a metal wire by a few micrometers and its resistance changes only slightly.

A new platform developed by Illinois Grainger engineers demonstrates the utility of a ytterbium-171 atom array in quantum ...

A researcher, Heikki Mäntysaari from the University of Jyväskylä (Finland), has been part of an international research group ...

Cryo-electron microscopy has exposed the structure of a bacterial virus with unprecedented detail. This is the first structure of a virus able to infect Staphylococcus epidermidis, and high-resolution ...