Science news articles about 'atoms and molecules'

  • Engineering functional structures with single atoms and molecules

    ... bottom-up approach: the engineering of functional structures with the smallest possible building blocks -- single atoms and molecules ...
  • Unpeeling atoms and molecules from the inside out

    ... the behaviors of individual electrons within simple atoms and molecules by stripping them away, one by one—in some cases ... -fast, ultra-bright pulses interact with atoms and molecules, they also pave the way for more complex experiments ...
  • Toward real time observation of electron dynamics in atoms and molecules

    ... have obtained groundbreaking information on the electronic structure of atoms and molecules by observing for the first time ever electronic correlations using the method of high harmonic generation ...
  • EUROCORES conference gives cold quantum matter a European twist

    ... quantum matter. Quantum matter is composed of atoms or molecules in a single quantum state that behave coherently as a single quantum object. It typically exists ...
  • Designer isotopes push the frontier of science

    ... for the astonishing possibilities of constructing objects with individual atoms and molecules. Sherrill, however, said that nanotechnology hardly is the last word in small. The chemical changes that brought ...
  • Argonne scientists use lasers to align molecules

    ... for crystallization by using lasers to align large groups of molecules. "Strong laser fields can be used to control the behavior of atoms and molecules," Argonne Distinguished Fellow Linda ...
  • First measurement of entangled states in nitrogen

    ... atoms form molecules, they share their outer electrons and this creates a negatively charged cloud. Here, electrons ...
  • Can One 'Pin Down' Electrons?

    ... with an answer that apparently satisfies everyone. When atoms form molecules, they share their outer electrons and this creates a negatively charged cloud. Here, electrons ...
  • What makes life go at the tropics?

    ... of metabolism, reproduction and many other biological processes to the motion of atoms and molecules. Such motion increases with temperature, presumably speeding up the biological processes. Fuhrman calls this “the Red ...
  • Europe gets together to harness quantum physics

    ... and matter at the elementary level that determine ultimately how atoms and molecules behave. A thorough understanding of quantum ... scalable quantum computers. The idea is that ions, which are atoms or molecules that have lost or gained electrons from their outer ...
  • Ultrafast look into atoms and molecules

    New record in ultrafast metrology: Physicists at Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich are the first to produce light pulses lasting only 80 attoseconds.
  • New paper offers insights into 'blinking' phenomena

    ... transitions between discrete energy levels of individual atoms and molecules. Although controversial in Bohr's time ... their own, that has been aimed at unlocking the mysteries of these fluorescent molecules or flourophores. They hope the paper will help spark ...
  • U-M instrument shows what planet Mercury is made of

    ... water ions around Mercury. Ions are atoms or molecules that have lost electrons and therefore have an electric charge. Because of the quantities of these molecules that scientists detected in Mercury's space environment ...
  • Radicals shake up molecules in a tug o' war

    ... shell of electrons, they are more susceptible to the mechanism than other types of atoms or molecules. Sometimes a collision between a free radical ... like renegades attempting to steal atoms from their parent molecule by tugging them away. But if a collision ...
  • Golden scales

    ... it to vibrate at a characteristic "flexural" resonance frequency. When an atom or molecule is deposited onto the carbon nanotube ... , our device does not require the ionization of neutral atoms or molecules that can destroy samples such as proteins. Also unlike ...

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