MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal ...

Researchers captured the first-ever images of atoms freely interacting in space, offering a rare glimpse into quantum ...

Physicists at the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms have pulled off a feat once confined to the blackboards of theorists ...

Scientists at the University of California, Davis have successfully altered the LSD molecule slightly, creating a new molecule called JRT by changing the position of two atoms. This ...

Energy from the washers is transferred to the water. Molecules in the hot water are moving faster than the atoms in the spoon. Faster-moving water molecules strike the atoms of the spoon, transferring ...

To physicists, temperature is a measure of how fast atoms are moving, a reflection of their energy—and absolute zero is the point at which there is absolutely no heat energy remaining to be ...

Heating a substance makes its atoms and molecules move faster. This happens whether the substance is a solid, a liquid, or a gas. It’s not easy to see it happen in a solid but let’s try it for a ...