As the number of particles in a physical system increases, its properties can change and different phase transitions (i.e., shifts into different phases of matter) can take place. Microscopic systems ...

Enormous atom. To create this weird state of matter, Burgdörfer and his colleagues started with a collection of strontium atoms, which they cooled to just a smidgen above absolute zero, or minus ...

In 2013, physicists used a "quantum microscope" to peer inside a hydrogen atom. Credit: A. S. Stodolna et al., 2013 ...

Helium under the microscope. Currently, however, the researchers are studying and analysing a helium atom using photoionization microscopy, and a paper on this will be published in the coming months. ...

Imagine the bizarre and potentially useful abilities you might possess if you could shrink to the size of an atom. What If. Shrinking to Atom Size: What Does the World Look Like at Microscopic Scale?

There's a vast amount of evidence showing that our universe behaves according to quantum-mechanical rules. So why do we find quantum physics weird?

Since at least 2016, a rumor has circulated online that "a speck of dust is halfway between the size of" an atom and Earth.. Variations of the claim have appeared on Pinterest and Facebook, with ...

So he and his colleagues decided to pack the power of an M.R.I. machine into the tip of another specialized instrument known as a scanning tunneling microscope to see if they could image ...

Sometimes, all it takes to capture a great photo is a DSLR camera, a microscopic atom, and a curious Ph.D. candidate. David Nadlinger, who traps atoms for his quantum computing research at the ...

WASHINGTON -- A microscopic cancer "smart bomb" powered by a single radioactive atom is able to find and kill tumor cells in laboratory experiments. Researchers hope to test the technique on human ...

An orbital structure is the space in an atom that’s occupied by an electron. But when describing these super-microscopic properties of matter, scientists have had to rely on wave functions — a ...