Figure 1: 3D determination of atomic coordinates, chemical species and grain structure of an FePt nanoparticle. Figure 2: 3D identification of grain boundaries and chemical order/disorder. Figure 3: ...

For millennia, atoms had been phantoms, widely suspected to exist but remaining stubbornly invisible — though not indivisible, as their name (Greek for “uncuttable”) originally implied. By the start ...

Matter is made up of very small parts called atoms. Atoms can combine in different numbers and in different ways to make different molecules. Atoms and molecules make up all of the different ...

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an illness that has spread across the globe, infecting more than 9 million people. The novel ...

(Nanowerk News) Shining light on a water droplet creates effects analogous to what happens in an atom. This can help us understand how atoms work, write researchers from the University of Gothenburg ...

Update: This article was updated on Sept. 11, 2017 by Rachel Ross, Live Science Contributor. Imagine plopping an atom down on a scale. As you do so, skin cells that are trillions of atoms thick flake ...