Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new theoretical framework that could dramatically ...

A single atom of silver working in synergy with carbon and nitrogen atoms can efficiently convert polluting nitrogenous waste in water from industries such as agriculture and mining into ready-to-use ...

Having good neighbors can be very valuable—even in the atomic world. A team of Amsterdam physicists was able to determine an important property of strontium atoms, a highly useful element for modern ...

Density describes how closely packed the particles are in a solid, liquid or gas. There is little difference between the density of a liquid and its corresponding solid (eg water and ice). This is ...

In this video, Jonny Nelson introduces an animated explanation of fission and fusion. The nuclei of atoms contain a large amount of energy. Releasing this energy could free the world from having to ...

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