Not content with protons and atomic nuclei, physicists took a new kind of particle for a spin around the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. On July 25, the Large Hadron Collider, located at ...

When it comes to our world, our Solar System, and everything we can see in our Universe, it's all made up of the same ingredients: atoms. Electrons and atomic nuclei interact and link up to form not ...

Neutral atoms were formed just a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang. The very first stars began ionizing those atoms once again, but it took hundreds of millions of years of forming stars ...

An international team of researchers has observed the quantum mechanical tunnelling effect for the first time. We have to climb a mountain in order to conquer it. In quantum physics there is a ...

Why can't neodymium be more like tin? Well it can, if you ionize it enough. Why strip atoms of a dozen or more electrons? To make them more amenable for use in atomic clocks and quantum computers. The ...

(Nanowerk News) Two separate research fields have been united in Hamburg for the very first time. Ultrashort laser pulses enable us to observe and manipulate matter on very short time scales, whereas ...

This release is also available in German. We have to climb a mountain in order to conquer it. In quantum physics there is a different way: objects can reach the opposite side of a hill simply by ...