Listen to the full series on BBC Sounds. Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden tested the plum pudding model. They aimed beams of positively-charged particles at very thin gold foil. These particles ...

Atoms can combine in different numbers and in different ways to make different molecules. Atoms and molecules make up all of the different substances, including solids, liquids, and gases that are all ...

Niels Bohr adapted Ernest Rutherford's nuclear model. Bohr did calculations that led him to suggest that electrons orbit the nucleus in shells. The shells are at certain distances from the nucleus.

At the core of RipplerX are two resonators that can be routed independently in parallel, or in series, so that the sound of ...

Scattering takes place across the universe at large and miniscule scales. Billiard balls clank off each other in bars, the ...

Three-nucleon force affects nuclear stability, impacting element formation and stellar evolution. The force increases energy ...

“Using cold atoms, it’s going to be easy to scale ... groundbreaking applications in fields ranging from cryptography to modelling complex systems. Ohmori’s team boasts a core competence ...

Brownlee’s biggest piece of advice to fans now buying the Model 251 is to really wear them instead of putting them on a shelf to gather dust. We sat down with Brownlee and Atoms co-founder and ...

Scientists have developed a simulation method incorporating quantum mechanics to model the electronic structure of nearly 13,000 atoms. This has enabled them to predict and characterize the ...