A nuclear engineer reacts to MinutePhysics' explanation of atoms, exploring the science behind atomic structure, common ...
Delve into the detail of atomic physics. As the basic units of matter, atoms are the building blocks for everything in the universe. Once thought to be indivisible, we now know they can indeed be ...
Physicists working on the MIGDAL experiment reported the first direct evidence of the Migdal effect in January 2026, confirming an atomic process that was predicted in 1939 but had never been cleanly ...
Editor’s Note: Professor WERNER HEISENBERG, who was born in Duisburg in 1901, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 for his work on the quantum theory. A member of the faculty of the ...
Invented 30 years ago, the atomic force microscope has been a major driver of nanotechnology, ranging from atomic-scale imaging to its latest applications in manipulating individual molecules, ...