(Nanowerk News) Atoms have been thoroughly researched, but they are still good for a surprise. Researchers of the Max Planck Advanced Study Group (ASG) at the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser ...

If an apple tree were like an atom, a fruit farmer would have a difficult job. When picking the fruit, he would have to apply more force for each further fruit, and picking the third dozen would ...

Deep inside a mountain in central Italy, scientists are laying a trap for dark matter. The bait? A big metal tank full of 3.5 tons (3,200 kilograms) of pure liquid xenon. This noble gas is one of the ...

Condensation processes are of key importance in nature and play a fundamental role in chemistry and physics. Owing to size effects at the nanoscale, it is conceptually desired to experimentally probe ...

Read the travelogue of a xenon atom as it journeys from the air we breathe to a dark-matter detector a mile underground. Sure, I was born inside the blast of a supernova. But what element doesn’t have ...

Physicists have succeeded in measuring the very weak van der Waals forces between individual atoms for the first time. To do this, they fixed individual noble gas atoms within a molecular network and ...

In a world first, researchers have recorded exactly how solvents interact with dissolved materials, one atom at a time. After a solute, such as salt, dissolves in a solvent, such as water, the two ...