Physicists use optical vortex beams to control atom ionization
A team of researchers from the University of Ottawa has made significant strides in understanding the ionization of atoms and ...
Only a Few Grams of This Element Exist—and Scientists Have Used It to Break the Rules of the Periodic Table
More than 75 years after its initial discovery, scientists have created an organometallic molecule containing the ...
Physicists Stunned: Lead-208’s Shape Just Broke a Fundamental Rule of Nuclear Physics
For decades, scientists believed that lead-208, a "doubly magic" and highly stable atomic nucleus, was perfectly spherical.
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Schrödinger's cat equation unifies Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum mechanics
The relationship between quantum mechanics and classical physics has baffled scientists for decades. In the quantum world, ...
Scientists achieve universal technique—called van der Waals squeezing—for atomic manufacturing of 2D metals
Since the groundbreaking discovery of graphene in 2004, the dizzying pace of progress in two-dimensional (2D) materials has ...