[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Scientists at China's large-scale tokamak facility for controlled nuclear fusion, Huanliu-3, have made a significant breakthrough with the development of an ...

Scientists have discovered a brand-new material with a unique atomic structure—something they weren’t even looking for. While ...

Instead of weakening the structure, these broken bonds provide just the right charge balance to keep the material stable, acting like an atomic-scale glue. Like magnets, polarized materials have ...

For more than 100 years, scientists have used a method called crystallography to determine the atomic structure of materials. The method works by shining an X-ray beam through a material sample and ...

The "China Sky Eye," also known as the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, has spotted a huge atomic gas structure in the vicinity of a galaxy group. [Photo/National Astronomical ...

Together with new calculations of the structure of atomic nuclei, theoretical physicists from the Technical University of Darmstadt and Leibniz University Hannover were able to show that measurements ...

One of the largest solar storms in recent history was the 1859 Carrington Event, which released roughly the same energy as 10 billion 1-megaton atomic bombs. After slamming into Earth, the ...

Upon the 40th anniversary of China’s accession to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA ... to the building of an eco-friendly energy structure, particularly in helping other countries ...

Understanding their molecular structure and terminologies is the initial step to learning chemistry. Two important concepts in atomic structure are the atomic number and the mass number.

The eighth Chinese scientist to win the award, Yan discovered the atomic structure of multiple membrane proteins that mediate the traffic of ions and sugars across the cell membrane, revealing ...

The draft clarifies the direction for energy structure adjustment and supports ... the NPC Standing Committee also began reviewing a draft atomic energy law to enhance the sound and sustainable ...