The poet Blake wrote that you can see a world in a grain of sand. But even better, you can see a universe in an atom!

George W. Bush made hydrogen his baby back in the early 2000's, but this alternative fuel could still have its day in the sun ...

Now that we have tools to find vast numbers of voids in the universe, we can finally ask…well, if we crack 'em open, what do ...

Why did they form at that time? Astronomers know from observing distant exploding stars that the size of the universe has ...

In 1977, astronomer Jerry Ehman discovered the mysterious “Wow! Signal” — a powerful radio burst from deep space at the hydrogen line frequency. Nearly five decades later, scientists believe the newly ...

Electrocatalytic transformations not only require electrical energy—they also need a reliable middleman to spark the desired ...

Atomic-scale imaging emerged in the mid-1950s and has been advancing rapidly ever since—so much so, that back in 2008, physicists successfully used an electron microscope to image a single hydrogen ...

A new measurement method suggests that the proton, a crucial subatomic particle in the Universe, is smaller than previously believed. All visible matter in the ...

DARPA leverages Rydberg atoms extreme electromagnetic sensitivity to create compact quantum RF sensors, replacing large ...

The Bohr model, introduced by Danish physicist Niels Bohr in 1913, was a key step on the journey to understand atoms. Ancient Greek thinkers already believed that matter was composed of tiny basic ...