Researchers have taken atomic diffraction to a new level, revealing surprising behaviors in high-energy helium and hydrogen atoms. By passing these particles through single-layer graphene, they have ...

Researchers have developed innovative methods to control the ionization of atoms and molecules using specially structured light beams, challenging traditional limits. This breakthrough could lead to ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The ...

Now you know that atoms are really small and that there are huge numbers of them, but here are a few other atom facts you might find interesting. Where do atoms come from? Believe it or not, the atoms ...

Modeling the quantum world is far from easy. The physical peculiarities of quantum mechanics are far removed from the world ...

Cold atoms are atoms that have been cooled to very ... and map the technology development to cold atom science. "There's been a lot of really great work miniaturizing beam delivery," said ...

Sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, tin and lead can now be made just a few atoms thick by crushing them at a high temperature and pressure between two sapphires ...

This colorful new view combines images that were taken in three different filters by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and highlights hydrogen, sulfur, and oxygen atoms. It is showing only a tiny ...

Researchers discover a way to potentially reduce CO2 emissions and decrease the need for chlorine to produce ethylene oxide — ...

The authors reference photonics achievements across a variety of sub-fields, ranging from telecommunications to sensors, and map the technology development to cold atom science. “We created cold atoms ...