Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is ...

Since its inception in 2008, the LHC (large hadron collider) at CERN has been a key player in pushing the boundaries of ...

SCIENCE is steadily becoming severely specialised. The proportion of amateurs (in the restricted sense of the word) among original workers of all ranks decreases slowly but surely. The average ...

Single-atom catalysts (SACs), with their excellent metal atom utilization and unique physicochemical properties, hold promise ...

Three different quantum field theories deal with three of the four ... which explains the stability of the nucleus at the heart of the atom; and the weak nuclear force, which explains why some ...

IN a letter to NATURE of November 25 last Dr. Norman Campbell discusses the problem of the possible consistency of the assumptions about the motion and arrangement of electrons in the atom ...

Physics has a problem—their key models of quantum theory and the theory of relativity do not fit together. Now, Dr. Wolfgang Wieland from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU ...

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China and the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics innovatively ...