There are striking similarities between how elementary particles come together to form atoms, molecules and eventually ...

Attractive metal-metal bonding occurs in a variety of molecules made of metallic atoms such as Iridium (Ir). These molecules ...

Back in the old days—the really old days—the task of designing materials was laborious. Investigators, over the course of ...

As part of the Q-NEXT quantum research center, Randall Goldsmith of the University of Wisconsin–Madison studies the interplay of light and matter, harnessing it for quantum information technologies.

Back in the old days - the really old days - the task of designing materials was laborious. Investigators, over the course of 1,000-plus years, tried ...

The CLOUD collaboration at CERN has revealed a new source of atmospheric aerosol particles that could help scientists to ...

A recent study by researchers from Peking University demonstrates the potential of nuclear electric resonance to control the nuclear spins of nitrogen atoms in DNA using electric field gradients, ...

In Bohr’s 1913 papers he envisaged atoms along the lines established by his mentor Ernest Rutherford: dense nuclei orbited by ...

Scientists have created a catalyst for hydrogen generation from ammonia that becomes more active with time, and by counting atoms revealed changes that boost the catalyst's performance.

A complex system, such as a cluster of many atoms or a biomolecule, behaves differently: The atoms can often arrange themselves into different ... the relatively simple molecules treated by ...

In what they're calling the "highest density of mechanical bonds ever achieved," researchers created a super-strong flexible ...

Two independent teams in the US have demonstrated the potential of using the optical properties of nanocrystals to create ...