The size of an atom is only a few angstroms at most - there are 10 billion angstroms in 1 meter. This video also goes the basic parts of an atom (protons, neutrons, and electrons) and why the ...

Scientists have taken the first ever snapshot of an atom's shadow—the smallest ever photographed using visible light. The imaging technique could have big implications for genetic research and ...

At least, that used to be true. Now, we have a picture of an atom that shows the particle floating in an electric field, and it’s large enough to see with the naked eye. Taken by David Nadlinger ...

If you expanded an atom to the size of a baseball, what would it look like? And how would the inside look if you sliced it open? The nucleus is the atom’s central core and contains more than 99. ...

Carbon nanostructures (known as fullerenes) were first discovered in the 1980s, and they prompted a wave of research in the hunt for other intriguing atom clusters. "If you look at the main group ...

When building an atom, pay close attention to the particles' electrical charges. Protons have a charge of +1. Electrons have a charge of -1. Neutrons are neutral, as their name implies.

Researchers have engineered a new, exotic state of matter in a lab in Houston – a giant atom filled with other atoms. The team, from the Vienna University of Technology and Harvard University ...

With this instrument, they managed to probe the heart of the atom. The team wanted to understand quantum-scale changes that occur within unstable atoms, and realized there's a state-of-the-art ...

While many IT departments grapple with big data, IBM says it has the smallest data in the world: one bit on one atom. Researchers at IBM’s Almaden lab in San Jose, California, have written and ...