For the first time, scientists have successfully mapped the shape of an electron while it moves through a solid. This ...

Ever since scientists figured out how to put humans in space, they've been working to protect those humans from exposure to excessive radiation. High-energy particles from the Sun and from cosmic rays ...

Scanning transmission electron microscopy experiments have uncovered the structural changes a ruthenium catalyst undergoes ...

A physicist explains how atoms arrange themselves into molecules – and how scientists are able to image these tiny bits of ...

Word is sure getting around about the "parade of planets" visible in our evening sky! Many of the news outlets and social ...

Some of the Los Alamos scientists feared that the USSR might already be working on a hydrogen bomb and one of them, the arch-hawk, Edward Teller, urged the rapid development of a weapon with an ...

Researchers have discovered the first conclusive evidence of altermagnetism, a third form of magnetism. The study reveals that altermagnetic materials possess a structure that blends the best ...

In fusion the aim is to use extremely high temperatures and pressures to force hydrogen atoms to fuse, creating helium. This process destroys a tiny fraction of their mass, converting it into ...

State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China ...

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a nuclear reaction in 1917 while ...

A small town mayor in New Zealand has picked a nuclear fight with Donald Trump, after the freshly sworn-in U.S. president heaped praise on American scientists for splitting the atom. The mayor of ...