Physicists have discovered a surprising new “Island of Inversion” in a place no one expected: among nuclei where the number ...

Scientists have finally glimpsed chemistry at its smallest level after capturing the first-ever X-ray of a single atom. Atoms are the tiniest particles in our universe, and they're the basic ...

In this episode, Dr Sunayana Bhargava and Tulela Pea explore the history of the atomic model, and how that has developed over the past two centuries. Suitable for: AQA, Edexcel, OCR. For more ...

Ohio University physicist Saw Wai Hla and his colleagues were able to scan a single iron atom hidden amid a complex molecule, something that’s never been done with an X-ray before. Extremely powerful ...

Atomic-scale imaging emerged in the mid-1950s and has been advancing rapidly ever since—so much so, that back in 2008, physicists successfully used an electron microscope to image a single hydrogen ...