But the truth is much stranger than most of those images let on. So what does an atom really look like? Find out in this episode of What the Physics?!

In school, you probably learned that an atom was like a little solar system ... Electrons are one of those funny things that sometimes look like a wave and sometimes look like a particle.

This fuzzy electron cloud wouldn’t be round in many cases - some atoms have oddly shaped electron orbitals like these: You might be able to see these lobed shapes. So what does an atom look like ...

But the truth is much stranger than most of those images let on. So what does an atom really look like? Find out in this episode of What the Physics?! National Corporate funding for NOVA is ...