The nucleus is very small compared to the atom as a whole: as electrons are even smaller, most of an atom is empty space the diameter of a nucleus can be 100,000 times less than the diameter of an ...

IN a letter to NATURE of November 25 last Dr. Norman Campbell discusses the problem of the possible consistency of the assumptions about the motion and arrangement of electrons in the atom ...

Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is, it was ...

Don't pay attention to Misty's eyes, but instead look above at the Structure Core from Occipital. Credit: Occipital Back in 2013, Occipital made waves with a 3D mapping sensor for the iPad.

Researchers have shown, for the first time, how the genetic material of the Nipah virus replicates in infected cells. The ...

Researchers showed how what appears to be a tangle of DNA is actually organized into a structure that coordinates thousands of genes to form a sperm cell. The work, published as two papers in ...

"We are finding the 3D structure of the genome," said Satoshi Namekawa, professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at ...

SCIENCE is steadily becoming severely specialised. The proportion of amateurs (in the restricted sense of the word) among original workers of all ranks decreases slowly but surely. The average ...