Scientists have observed “bending” atoms using a crystal grating—an experiment once believed impossible at the high energies ...

Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's claims ...

Scientists in Australia redefine quantum error correction using Schrödinger’s cat as a metaphor for resilience.

When U.S. President Donald Trump claimed during his inaugural address that Americans “split the atom,” a ripple of irritation ...

Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is ...

The nucleus is very small compared to the atom as a whole: as electrons are even smaller, most of an atom is empty space the diameter of a nucleus can be 100,000 times less than the diameter of an ...

An experiment more than 10 years in the making has delivered its first glimpse of the ... a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. What we regard as the nucleus of an ...

For over a century, science has relentlessly pursued the demonstration of atom diffraction, a critical phenomenon for ...