atoms

The quarks inside atoms move slower than the quarks inside free-floating protons and neutrons. But why?

Laser-cooled plasma has all the chill.

Lasers and microgravity will chill this ice chest-size box to 10 billion times colder than the vacuum of space.

These giant, overstuffed atoms take advantage of the weird properties of materials at very low temperatures.

For the first time, scientists have proven a phenomenon, called coherent scattering, experimentally with the world's smallest neutrino detector.

Tiny vehicles made from a single molecule will go head-to-head in the first ever NanoCar Race tomorrow.

For the first time, scientists have seen the exact locations of more than 23,000 atoms in a particle that's small enough to fit inside the wall of a single cell.

Is it possible to make an element zero? Does it already exist?

A new "atomic memory" device that encodes data atom by atom can store hundreds of times more data than current hard disks can, a new study finds.

After a long hiatus, the periodic table of the elements has finally gotten a new update, adding four new elements to its roster and completing its seventh row.