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Earth's solid inner core is 'surprisingly soft' thanks to hyperactive atoms jostling aroundAtoms within the enormous ball of iron in Earth's inner core may move around much more than previously thought, which could explain recent findings about the core's surprising softness.
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Scientists tried to solve the mystery of the helium nucleus — and ended up more confused than everHelium is the simplest element in the periodic table with more than one particle in its nucleus, yet state of the art theory and experiments on it don't add up.
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Elemental Shift: Periodic Table Gets Weight ChangesTen elements that help make up the universe, including carbon, are getting their very atomic weights altered.
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Where do electrons get energy to spin around an atom's nucleus?Quantum mechanics explains why the electrons can keep spinning indefinitely.
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CERN: Organization, experiments and factsReference Facts about the organization that built the atom smasher.
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Large Hadron Collider is waking up after a 3-year nap, and it could help explain why the universe exists.After a three-year nap, the world's largest atom smasher is waking up and getting ready to smash atoms harder than ever.
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What is the 'Gold Foil Experiment'? The Geiger-Marsden experiments explainedThe Geiger-Marsden experiment, also called the gold foil experiment, gave physicists their first view of the structure of the atomic nucleus.
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What is an atom? Facts about the building blocks of the universe
Reference Atoms are the building blocks of matter and were created after the Big Bang. They are the smallest unit of an element that still retains its properties.
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1st 'atom tornado' created from swirling vortex of helium atomsPhysicists have created the first-ever atomic vortex beam — a swirling tornado of atoms and molecules with mysterious properties that have yet to be understood.
