At first glance, it might seem obvious that atoms touch each other, especially when you consider the material world around us ...

From nearly indestructible metals, like tungsten, to delicate clouds in the sky, atoms make up everything around us. But do ...

Einstein may have been troubled enough by entanglement to call it "spooky action at a distance" but scientists have ...

Carbon, essential for life, journeys through space in a galactic recycling process, fueling star and planet formation.

Discover the incredible journey of carbon atoms through space and their essential role in the creation of life on Earth.

Conventional lab-scale laser technology currently achieves ... For experiments that require ultra-precise measurements and control over atoms -- think two-photon atomic clocks, cold-atom ...

Energy startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems has announced that it will begin construction of the "world's first grid-scale" ...

Stephen is sharing a recent edition of his Rational Optimist Diary on nanotech and nuclear fusion. An incredibly bright ...

Researchers at the University of Oklahoma have developed a breakthrough method of adding a single nitrogen atom to molecules, ...

"[But] this type of touching does not really make sense at the atomic scale because atoms do not have well-defined outer surfaces." An atom is neither a solid object nor the smallest unit known to ...

Conventional lab-scale laser technology currently achieves ... "This will impact technology spaces such as quantum computing with neutral atoms and trapped ions and also cold atom quantum sensors ...