When we first learn about atoms, we learn that the simplest has one electron buzzing around one proton, aka hydrogen. But it ...

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Quantum physics overturned classical ideas by showing that matter behaves very differently at the ...

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But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

For the first time, researchers from Tokyo University of Science have observed wave-like interference patterns from ...

The same phenomenon was later confirmed for neutrons, helium atoms, and even large molecules, making matter-wave diffraction ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

“Positronium is the simplest atom composed of equal-mass constituents, and until it self-annihilates, it behaves as a neutral ...

Atoms that occur in nature interact with the electromagnetic field at a single point, allowing scientists to make certain assumptions about energy levels with point-like references. However, ...