In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

If you think of a single atom as a grain of sand, then a wavelength of visible light—which is a thousand times larger than ...

MIT researchers found that a hidden atomic order can persist in metals even after they undergo extreme processing. For ...

Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, researchers have captured the hidden, never-ending vibrations of atoms inside molecules. This first-ever direct view of zero-point motion reveals that ...

India's Chandrayaan-2 orbiter has achieved a groundbreaking first, detecting the impact of solar Coronal Mass Ejections on ...