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Scientists have demonstrated that atoms can exhibit wave-like behavior, challenging long-held assumptions that experiments of this nature were impossible and opening new doors in quantum physics ...

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

Sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, tin and lead can now be made just a few atoms thick by crushing them at a high temperature and pressure between two sapphires ...

Atoms in metals like platinum are in constant motion. Studying those grain boundaries closer could help materials scientists make stronger, more flexible metals.

Given this vast sum of atoms in one person alone, you might think it would be impossible to determine how many atoms are in the entire universe.

How do you catch atoms? In very tiny traps Scientists use the strongly confining fields of plasmons to catch atoms in … ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite its homebrew appearance, this device, a scanning tunneling microscope, is one of the most extraordinary lab instruments of the last three decades. It can pick up individual atoms one by ...