Like soft serve ice cream, beams of atoms and molecules now come with a swirl. Scientists already knew how to dish up spiraling beams of light or electrons, known as vortex beams (SN: 1/14/11).Now ...

In the January 29th issue of Science, a team from Harvard led by Vinothan Manoharan and Michael Brenner, presents additional clues to how and why groups of atoms and molecules may favor less ...

A look at how electrostatic forces make atoms and molecules attract each other even when none of them have an electric charge. ... science, academia, and pop culture. Follow Author. Jul 13, ...

This calculated diffraction image shows how forked diffraction gratings shape the atoms' wave function into a vortex. (Courtesy: Science/AAAS) A wave-like property previously only seen in beams of ...

Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in Molecules. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.

Engineering functional structures with single atoms and molecules. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 27, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 11 / 091112121605.htm ...

An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and molecules, and laser-wielding scientists are revealing the action ...

I n a groundbreaking discovery, physicists have for the first time observed individual free-range atoms interacting in free space, confirming a quantum mechanical theory proposed over a century ...

Atoms and molecules absorb certain colors of light, and this can tell us a lot about them. ... Chris writes for Ars Technica's science section. A physicist by day and science writer by night, ...

By leveraging the concept of chirality, or the difference of a shape from its mirror image, EPFL scientists have engineered ...

In the past, scientists have X-rayed batches of atoms, to understand what they are and predict how those atoms might fare in a particular chemical reaction. But no one has been able to X-ray an ...