Researchers have demonstrated that by using argon plasma, metal atoms can be dispersed and guided to desired positions. This ...

Atoms make up everything around us, but do these building blocks of matter ever actually touch?

Scientists spied on two atoms forming chemical bonds and breaking them by studying molecules made of two rhenium atoms (illustrated in green) inside a carbon nanotube (gray). University of Nottingham ...

Using a clever laser technique, scientists have squished pairs of atoms closer together than ever before, revealing some truly mind-boggling quantum effects.

Like soft serve ice cream, beams of atoms and molecules now come with a swirl. Vortex beams made of light or electrons have shown promise for making special types of microscope images and for ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, physicists have for the first time observed individual free-range atoms interacting in free space, confirming a quantum mechanical theory proposed over a century ago ...

A new website from a prominent scientific body probes the concepts students know and those where they have misconceptions.