Researchers at the University of Basel have shown that quantum systems can have antagonistic interactions, too—one agent ...

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a new thermometer using atoms boosted to such high energy levels that they are a thousand times larger than normal.

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

For the first time, atoms of the metal indium have been chilled to temperatures a few millionths of a degree above absolute ...

Carbon, essential for life, journeys through space in a galactic recycling process, fueling star and planet formation.

Scientists based in Manchester, not the US, made the "key breakthrough" in splitting the atom, despite Donald Trump's claims ...

A classic quantum experiment that shows how particles can behave like waves has been demonstrated with atoms for the first time, something that was thought to be impossible. The finding could be used ...

In the 1950s, the U.S. envisioned a nuclear-powered airship as part of the Atoms for Peace program. This ambitious flying ...