Physicists are getting closer to controlling single-molecule chemical reactions -- could this shape the future of pharmaceutical research? Controlling matter at the atomic level has taken a major step ...

I spent last week at the 49th annual meeting of the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics of the American Physical Society, with about 1200 other physicists who study the way atoms, ...

Physicists are getting closer to controlling single-molecule chemical reactions – could this shape the future of pharmaceutical research?Controlling matter at the atomic level has taken a major step ...

The ultimate dream of nanotechnology is to be able to manipulate matter atom by atom. To do that, we first need to know what they look like. In what could be a major step in that direction, ...

This image depicts the radium atom’s pear-shaped nucleus of protons and neutrons in the center, surrounded by a cloud of electrons (yellow), and an electron (yellow ball with arrow) that has a ...