For the first time, physicists have developed a model that explains the origins of unusually stable magic nuclei based ...

A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms are exceptionally stable, a riddle that has persisted in nuclear physics for decades ...

A scanning tunneling microscope and machine learning algorithm autonomously search for atomic structures. This image shows a vacancy defect on europium zinc arsenide. A research team led by Oak Ridge ...

Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is, it was roughly ...