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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.

Although life on Earth may seem rather stable and unchanging—the tide goes in and out, the Sun rises and sets, and the months bleed on the same as always—in the grand scheme of things, our ...

Physicists used a specialized laser to freeze sodium atoms into a quantum state, then whipped them into tornadoes with powerful electromagnets.

Dear Science, 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?

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 ...

When natural uranium is put in a chain-reacting pile, its U-235 atoms start splitting and yielding energy, “fission products” and free neutrons. Some of the neutrons are needed to split more U ...

How ultracold, superdense atoms become invisible A new study confirms that as atoms are chilled and squeezed to extremes, their ability to scatter light is suppressed Date: November 18, 2021 ...