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

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 ...

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?

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Detecting atomic state hydrogen - the smallest atom in the universe ... and his co-authors developed a new visualization technique harnessing an optical microscope and polyaniline layer.

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 ...