Hollow atoms are special atoms with multiple missing electrons in their inner shells, while their outer shells are still fully or partially filled with electrons. Studying the production mechanisms, ...

Databases of materials serve an increasingly important role in research. They enable discovery of trends that may not be discernible at the scale most scientific research groups work. Gazzarrini et al ...

As the smallest one-dimensional structure, single-atom chains exhibit many one-dimensional quantized behaviors, such as Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid behavior, high-temperature superconductivity, and ...

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 that ...

MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal correlations among the "free-range" particles that until now were predicted but never ...

Everything we can see and touch, and quite a lot that we can’t as well, is made of tiny particles called atoms. Some substances, like particles of this iron, contain only one kind of atom. Iron is an ...

Gold is weird. It’s one of the few metals that doesn’t really oxidize. Even silver and copper—from the same column of the ...