Like their conventional counterparts, quantum computers can also break down. They can sometimes lose the atoms they ...

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Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have filmed atoms performing an eternal quantum dance that never ...

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For much of my career, I have been fascinated by the ways in which materials behave when we reduce their dimensions to the ...

They observe for the first time the movement of oxygen atoms in liquid water, revealing life forms and effects for plasma ...

Traditionally, X-ray methods require at least 10,000 atoms to generate a detectable signal. This is because the X-ray signal ...

Instead of electrons in a solid, the researchers used Bose–Einstein condensates (BECs), ultracold gases in which atoms behave ...

Scientists have uncovered that some atoms in liquids don't move at all—even at extreme temperatures—and these anchored atoms dramatically alter the way materials freeze. Using advanced electron ...

If atoms did not connect to one another, everything we know would not exist. The Sun, the Earth, animals, plants, us — we are all based on that single chemical process when two atoms bond and form ...

A couple of weeks back I posted an answer to a question from a Twitter follower’s child, who asked “How Strong Is Space?” That was fun, so here’s another kid-question answered, this one from my own ...

When you eat food, drink liquids, or even breathe in the air, many of those atoms wind up getting incorporated to your body. When you sweat, exhale, and either secrete or excrete matter from your body ...