Every chemical reaction faces a barrier: For substances to react with one another, it is first necessary to supply energy. In ...

Atoms measure roughly 0.1 nanometers across, a scale so small that scientists spent more than six decades developing instruments capable of resolving them with any clarity. The journey from the first ...

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Phonons are the collective vibrations that move through a solid. They can be thought of as waves traveling across the atomic ...

If atoms did not connect to one another, everything we know would not exist. The Sun, the Earth, animals, plants, us — we are all based on that single chemical process when two atoms bond and form ...

A couple of weeks back I posted an answer to a question from a Twitter follower’s child, who asked “How Strong Is Space?” That was fun, so here’s another kid-question answered, this one from my own ...

For the first time, a team of US researchers has used sensors containing highly excited Rydberg atoms to detect signals from ...

Not content with protons and atomic nuclei, physicists took a new kind of particle for a spin around the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. On July 25, the Large Hadron Collider, located at ...

A 3-millimeter piece of metal can be magnified 50 million times — revealing atoms just 0.1 nanometers wide. To see them, ...