Like bakers measuring the exact same amount of flour every time they made bread, physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have used a laser trap to consistently capture and measure the same ...

Physicists have developed new technology to study atomic vibration in small particles, revealing a more accurate picture of the structure of atomic clusters where surface atoms vibrate more ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. Most of the crystals in our environment are too small to ...

One of the more laborious scientific enterprises of the last few decades has been the development of gravity wave detectors. These detectors, which are supposed to pick up the tiny ripples in ...

Beams of electrons and ultra-intense x-rays give complementary information about hydrogen atoms in small organic molecules Extremely intense x-ray pulses can determine the positions of some hydrogen ...

Kurzgesagt has a neat new explainer: “How small is an atom?” I watched it. It does a great job at giving you an idea of how small atoms are and how they work. But it doesn’t matter, because my brain ...

While natural atoms are small and point-like with respect to the wavelength of light they interact with, in a paper published in the journal Nature, the researchers show that this need not be the case ...

All matter is made of very small units called atoms. Atoms are so small they cannot be seen using a regular microscope. Scientists have discovered a way to “see” atoms using a special instrument ...

(Nanowerk News) We study the movement of incredibly small things. How small is small? Think smaller than “nano.” Think smaller than atoms themselves. We measure the infinitesimally small shifts in the ...