New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky Way on a cosmic "conveyor belt," before eventually returning to our galaxy ...

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a new thermometer using atoms boosted to such high energy levels that they are a thousand times larger than normal.

US and Canada-based scientists revealed in a recent study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters that up to 18% of ...

Scientists have demonstrated that atoms can exhibit wave-like behavior, challenging long-held assumptions that experiments of this nature were impossible and opening new doors in quantum physics.

For the first time, atoms of the metal indium have been chilled to temperatures a few millionths of a degree above absolute zero, a state where strange quantum phenomena begin to appear ...

Researchers at the University of Basel have shown that quantum systems can have antagonistic interactions, too—one agent ...

A recent study by researchers from Peking University demonstrates the potential of nuclear electric resonance to control the nuclear spins of nitrogen atoms in DNA using electric field gradients, ...