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 ...

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

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. ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...