Imagine building a Lego tower with perfectly aligned blocks. Each block represents an atom in a tiny crystal, known as a ...

Scientists have long been fascinated by how light interacts with matter. At the heart of this curiosity are photons—particles ...

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Lithium-6 is a crucial material for nuclear fusion reactors, but isolating it is challenging – now researchers have found a ...

Quantum-based gravity sensors have probed fundamental physics, and they could transform our understanding of what’s just ...

Physicists at Washington University have forged ahead in the field of quantum mechanics by creating a new phase of matter ...

Researchers have taken atomic diffraction to a new level, revealing surprising behaviors in high-energy helium and hydrogen ...

Contributed by John P. Perdew; received September 12, 2024; accepted January 23, 2025; reviewed by Filipp Furche, Robert O. Jones, and Hannes Jonsson ...

Why are atoms as they are? Why do different materials ... These additions made sense in Bohr’s picture of the atom: if the electron is moving along a circular orbit around the atomic nucleus ...

Willy Adames was the Giants’ biggest acquisition this past offseason as San Francisco begins a new era under the leadership of new president of baseball operations Buster Posey. The slugging shortstop ...

“I will describe developments at ORNL and elsewhere that will enable scientists to move and rearrange individual atoms to engineer atomic structures, providing new and useful properties that would be ...

A distinguished scientist who heads an Oak Ridge National Laboratory research team known for inventing novel advanced microscopy tools that can “write” with atoms will speak Tuesday, March 11 ...