We know that matter is made up of particles called atoms and that an element is a substance that is made up of only one kind of atom. But what are atoms made up of? A very important part of ...

A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation ...

Teacher: Well, I guess. But you're actually made of atoms. In fact, everything is made of atoms. Presenter: It's funny, because I don't remember seeing any atoms last time I looked in the mirror.

A new way to measure the temperatures of objects by studying the effect of their black-body radiation on Rydberg atoms has ...

Now you know that atoms are really small and that there are huge numbers of them, but here are a few other atom facts you might find interesting. Where do atoms come from? Believe it or not, the atoms ...

Copper atoms are larger than aluminum atoms. There are fewer copper atoms than aluminum atoms in the cubes. Copper atoms are much more massive than aluminum atoms. The extra mass makes copper more ...

Researchers at CU Boulder have created a new type of magnetic field sensor using atoms, offering increased precision.

But Ohmori and his team are pursuing an alternative approach based on cold atoms, and he sees this method leapfrogging superconductors in the medium term. “To create a truly useful quantum ...

What’s the difference between nuclear fission and nuclear fusion? Both are nuclear processes, in that they involve nuclear forces to change the nucleus of atoms. Chemical processes on the other hand ...