A: Some people think that an atom is the smallest form of matter, but it’s not. Every atom is made up of subatomic particles – protons, electrons and sometimes neutrons. Protons themselves are now ...

Physicists have started running the world's largest particle accelerator at a new record energy and taking the first data from these ultra-powerful collisions. Protons zoom around the 17 mile (27 ...

IBM’s Scanning Tunneling Microscope, or STM for short, uses an atomically sharp needle that passes over the surface of an (electrically conductive) object – the distance between the tip and object ...

GENEVA - Scientists working at the world's biggest atom smasher near Geneva have announced they are confident that the new subatomic particle discovered last summer is a version of the long-sought ...

Confine electrons within microscopically thin layers of material and weird things happen. Experiments on semiconductors in the 1980s demonstrated that to physicists (SN: 10/17/98, p. 247). Now, two ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A few years from now, if a crew of physicists gets its way, a squat building will rise above the ...