Unstable atoms emit fast-moving particles that can damage cells in the human body. Some atoms are far more unstable than ...

Everything we can see and touch, and quite a lot that we can’t as well, is made of tiny particles called atoms. Some substances, like particles of this iron, contain only one kind of atom. Iron is an ...

It’s hard to escape the conclusion that the 50% jump in the gold price this year has been driven by a search for alternatives ...

We obviously can’t put the universe on a giant set of scales, but scientists have found astonishingly clever ways to […] ...

Atoms of different elements usually have different mass numbers, but they can be the same. For example, the mass number of argon atoms and calcium atoms can both be 40. The symbol for an atom can be ...

In chess, every piece moves differently — the knight jumps, the bishop slides diagonally, the queen rules the board with ...

Nobel Prize in Physics is a tribute to the scientists who first discovered quantum behaviors in a macroscopic electrical ...

A new study has uncovered how tiny differences in boron atoms can help scientists better predict the long-term behavior of ...

A memory chip just 10 atoms thick has been tested in a lab and integrated into conventional chips, demonstrating a technology that could improve the capacity of our devices ...

What makes the journey fascinating is how each level of zoom reveals new rules. Biology gives way to chemistry, chemistry gives way to physics, and eventually physics reaches a quantum realm full of ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum ...