When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Physicists have discovered a way to play with matter on a subatomic scale, reaching into atoms to ...

Can scientists image the motion of electrons inside atoms? It’s a challenging problem, but solving it would help us develop a more complete understanding of things like chemical reactions and the ...

(Nanowerk News) Since their invention in the 1930s, electron microscopes have helped scientists peer into the atomic structure of ordinary materials like steel, and even exotic graphene. But despite ...

What you’re looking at is the first direct observation of an atom’s electron orbital — an atom’s actual wave function! To capture the image, researchers utilized a new quantum microscope — an ...

Atom imaging: The image at left shows the atoms present in the 2D material. At right are photos of single atoms. (Courtesy: The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois ...

The “lead” of a pencil is actually made of a substance called graphite which is made of carbon atoms. The picture shows a close-up of one carbon atom. A hydrogen atom has one proton as the nucleus and ...