The hydrogen atom isn’t just the simplest atom—it’s a perfect playground for exploring quantum mechanics. From Schrödinger’s equation to stunning 3D orbital visualizations, scientists and educators ...

A Korean research team has developed a technology that uses only one-tenth the amount of the rare metal iridium in water ...

A comet born around another star is carrying water unlike anything ever measured in our solar system. Observations of ...

There has been considerable debate among physicists over the last 15 years about conflicting measurements of the charge radius of a hydrogen atom’s proton—some confirming the predictions of our ...

A light-driven catalyst built from palladium single atoms and plasmonic gold nanoparticles converts phenylacetylene to ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals ...

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Researchers in the UC Santa Barbara Materials Department have uncovered the elusive quantum mechanism by which energetic ...

Astronomers using radio telescope observations to get an inside look at an interstellar comet have gleaned new insights into ...

Measurements of this interstellar comet’s molecular makeup show an excess of heavy water molecules that is dramatically ...

Accelerator-based high-energy electron diffraction determines 3D atomic structure of materials New method using ultrashort ...

A ball tossed into the air follows a path that classical physics can track with confidence. Shrink that ball down to the size ...