Water doesn’t behave the same way in a glass as it does as ice in your freezer. When water is heated to several thousand ...

The award winning OpenMC software package is helping researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the Massachusetts ...

US researchers say they have built a laser system precise and powerful enough to control vast grids of atoms, a step they ...

During chemical reactions, atoms in the reacting substances break their bonds and re-arrange, forming different chemical ...

The reason for this is both a fault in the stars and in ourselves: we don't see them as green because of the way stars emit light and the way our eyes see colors. Stars emit light because they're hot.

Researchers have identified an unexpected link between atomic magnetism and carbon mobility in steel. Researchers at the ...

Astronomers from Cardiff University, as well as University College London, detected the iron bar using a new telescope ...

A distinctive nebula inside the constellation Lyra holds a never-before-seen cloud of iron atoms—and researchers aren’t sure ...

Scientists at the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL have realized a long-pursued experimental goal in physics: to show how ...

A solid—rather than liquid—electrolyte between the opposite electrodes of a battery should, in theory, enable a rechargeable ...

Crucially, the silver remained in its positively charged ionic form rather than becoming metallic again. The researchers ...

On December 20, 1951, atoms of uranium-235 were used to generate the electricity to light four lightbulbs in the middle of ...