Two nearly identical materials have completely different chemical behavior. Research teams at the University of Vienna and TU ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many heavy atoms form from a supernova explosion, the remnants of which are shown in this image. NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Understanding how atoms form is a fundamental and important question, since they make up everything with mass. The question of ...

Oxford chemists used machine learning-driven atomistic simulations to show how the polymer PVDC breaks down into hard carbon, ...

Typically, electrons are free agents that can move through most metals in any direction. When they encounter an obstacle, the charged particles experience friction and scatter randomly like colliding ...

Physicists directly observed ultracold atoms in an 'edge state,' flowing along a boundary without resistance. The research could help physicists manipulate electrons to flow without friction in ...

Although laser light would ordinarily energize atoms, causing them to move faster, if the frequency and other properties of the light are chosen carefully, the opposite happens. Upon striking the ...

What errors remain in error-corrected quantum computing? How can optical measurements be combined with techniques for ...

A cloud of helium atoms split, scattered and fell under gravity, yet still behaved as if its parts were linked. That is the heart of a new experiment from the Australian National University, where ...

A team of physicists in the Netherlands and Germany recently placed a bunch of titanium atoms under a scanning tunneling microscope. Those atoms were in constant, quiet interaction with each other ...