Researchers have visualized atoms in motion just before a radiation-driven decay process occurs, revealing a surprisingly ...

In the air people breathe, the water on Earth, the stars in the sky and more, atoms are the building blocks that make up the ...

Scientists filmed atoms "roaming" before exploding -- revealing a hidden driver of radiation damage.How Radiation Damages Cells at the Atomic ...

Understanding how a crack grows in metal requires simultaneously calculating the behavior of hundreds of billions of atoms: ...

Electron diffraction is a powerful analytical technique used to study the atomic structure of materials. It involves the interaction of a beam of electrons with a crystalline sample, resulting in a ...

PTB’s ion traps (top right) and the PENTATRAP Penning trap mass spectrometer at MPIK in Heidelberg (bottom left) were used to obtain a new insight into the differences between isotopes and new limits ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) At the scale of individual atoms, materials behave in ways that defy everyday intuition. Stretch a metal wire by a few micrometers and its resistance changes only slightly.

Crystalline alloys used in motors today lose some energy through heat, but glass-like metals could solve this engineering ...