Reference: Nature Human Behaviour paper Atoms do their first calculation A new kind of quantum computer uses a high-resolution microscope to control titanium atoms sitting on a surface.

Matter gets weird at the quantum scale, and among the oddities is the Efimov effect, a state in which the attractive forces ...

The Bohr model, introduced by Danish physicist Niels Bohr in 1913, was a key step on the journey to understand atoms. Ancient Greek thinkers already believed that matter was composed of tiny basic ...

Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) have developed a novel ...

Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, researchers have captured the hidden, never-ending vibrations of atoms inside molecules. This first-ever direct view of zero-point motion reveals ...

By controlling individual atoms, researchers have demonstrated a way to turn previously unwanted atomic motion into an advantage.

Adding energy to a group of ultracold atoms should make them fly away from each other with many different energies, but ...