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From nearly indestructible metals, like tungsten, to delicate clouds in the sky, atoms make up everything around us. But do these atoms ever touch each other? As with most topics in atomic physics ...

Using a clever laser technique, scientists have squished pairs of atoms closer together than ever before, revealing some truly mind-boggling quantum effects. When you purchase through links on our ...

Image credit: MIPT.For more on the structure of atoms, see this post. Ultimately, the number of protons is what determines the atomic number. For example, helium has two protons, so its atomic ...

The atoms formed a thin, needle-like structure that had the properties of the fluid they’d been seeking. The researchers published the results up to here in Science in June 2021 . But they knew ...

I read once that atoms get recycled so much through the planet that each of us probably includes a little bit of Shakespeare. Can this be true? (And if it is, why is my poetry still so bad?) Where ...

The atom, tightest bundle of matter which man knows, would be a morning glory pod popping out its electron and proton seeds, if physicists had an electric current of sufficiently high voltage at ...

Atoms are normally made of a nucleus and electrons. But scientists are proposing a hunt for a new variety of atom without either. Tauonium (sometimes called “ditauonium” or “true tauonium ...

Science: Breeding Atoms. 3 minute read. TIME. December 12, 1949 12:00 AM GMT-5. E xperts called it the biggest atomic news since the end of World War II.

The team's results, reported in Science, represent the first observation of Pauli blocking's effect on light-scattering by atoms. This effect was predicted 30 years ago but not observed until now.