The world’s largest atom smasher has conducted its first-ever collisions between protons and oxygen ions, as part of an ...

The race to build the first useful quantum computer is on and may revolutionize the world with brand new capabilities, from ...

The idea of powering a house with a single atom might seem like science fiction, but recent advancements in nuclear physics ...

As the number of particles in a physical system increases, its properties can change and different phase transitions (i.e., ...

Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize, said that if he could pass on only one piece of ...

More recently, however, it's been smaller, dust-sized “micrometeoroids” that have been constantly colliding into the lunar surface – kicking up soil and lofting up vaporized atom particles ...

For over 100 years, two theories have shaped our understanding of the universe: quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general ...

Smashing atomic nuclei together at mind-bending speeds recreates the fiery conditions of the early universe and scientists ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.. On a quiet pandemic afternoon in 2021, Zhiyuan Wang, then a graduate student at Rice University, was alleviating his boredom by ...

Rutherford made a series of discoveries about the nature of atoms and, working with colleagues Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, presented a planetary model of the atom in 1911. In it, he laid out ...

Since at least 2016, a rumor has circulated online that "a speck of dust is halfway between the size of" an atom and Earth.. Variations of the claim have appeared on Pinterest and Facebook, with ...