The quantum world has a reputation for being elusive, but physicists are now starting to watch it unfold in real time. For ...

For the first time, researchers have played matchmaker between two specific atoms, joining them together to form a molecule. Typically, chemists make molecules by mixing up many constituent atoms, ...

How materials behave depends on the interactions between countless atoms. You could see this as a giant group chat in which atoms are continuously exchanging quantum information. Researchers from ...

They observe for the first time the movement of oxygen atoms in liquid water, revealing life forms and effects for plasma ...

Some of the most important quantum effects powering today’s technology happen on scales that ...

Physicists have just upped their ante: Not only have they split atoms but, even trickier, they've put them back together. Their secret? Quantum physics. A team of scientists was able to "split" an ...

Bigger than a bacterium: comparing the size of a bacterium to that of a giant molecule made from weakly bound Rydberg atoms. The separation between the two atoms is about 1 micron. (Courtesy: Heiner ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. In a previous post, I went on for a bit about how the cool patterns of ...

Researchers have created the world's "thinnest unsupported gold" that is just two atoms thick. A team from the University of Leeds in the U.K. say the material measures only 0.47 nanometers in ...