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!

For decades, physicists have studied the way an electron ought to bind to a proton, the simplest atomic system. The fascinating patterns of hydrogen orbitals that form at different energy levels are ...

Electron orbitals of excited hydrogen atoms can be observed directly. Orbitals lie outside the nucleus and their properties are described by mathematical wavefunctions. These functions are difficult ...

Scientists have synthesized a compound that absorbs near-infrared light to produce hydrogen from water. The compound contains three ruthenium atoms connected by an organic molecule. The absorbed light ...

The Institute for Advanced Study, which has played host to such luminaries as Albert Einstein and Kurt Gödel, is holding a series of talks to celebrate the birthday of another one of its famous ...

(Nanowerk News) In chemistry, the wave functions of electrons bound to nuclei determine the chemical characteristics of atomic and molecular species. In this context, an artificial molecule (AM) can ...