Getting an up-close view of life at the cellular level can be as simple as placing onion skin under a microscope and adjusting the knobs. Peering deeper, into the heart of the atoms within, isn't as ...

In terms of the Quasiparticle Model, a single particle travels through a sea of fermions, which include electrons, protons, or neutrons, and interacts persistently with its neighbours.

Phonons are the collective vibrations that move through a solid. They can be thought of as waves traveling across the atomic ...

Curious Kids is a series for children in which we ask experts to answer questions from kids. What is the smallest thing in the universe that actually exists? – Mimi, 12, Abeokuta, Nigeria To find an ...

In chemistry, molecules with a "flat" geometry are often stable enough to support a wide range of reactions. But in the quantum world, that's not technically true.

The world is never really at rest. Even in a vacuum near ultracold temperatures where all classical motion should come to a halt, you'll find quantum fluctuations. In thin, two-dimensional materials, ...

Atoms measure roughly 0.1 nanometers across, a scale so small that scientists spent more than six decades developing ...

The Schrödinger equation rewrote the rules of matter and forever changed the field of chemistry. Donald Truhlar, a chemist at the University of Minnesota, calls it the “greatest advance of the 20th ...