A nuclear engineer reacts to MinutePhysics' explanation of atoms, exploring the science behind atomic structure, common ...

Researchers with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have created an innovative method to visualize and analyze atomic structures ...

A pervasive challenge in this field is the ability to precisely control chemical reaction conditions to alter the crystal structure of materials—how their atoms are arranged in space with respect to ...

Crystallography is the science of analyzing the pattern produced by shining an X-ray beam through a material sample. A powder sample produces a different pattern than solid crystal. One longstanding ...

Researchers have created an innovative method to visualize and analyze atomic structures within specially designed, ultrathin bilayer 2D materials. (Nanowerk News) Researchers with the Oak Ridge ...

Scientists have rewritten the story of gallium after discovering that its unusual atomic bonds re-form at high temperatures, ...

Nearly 150 years after gallium was first discovered and added to the periodic table, scientists at the University of Auckland ...

Until now, it was generally believed that gold simply does not react with oxygen and therefore does not discolor. On May 21, ...