I spent last week at he annual meeting of theAmerican's Physical Society's Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (colloquially referred to as "DAMOP" pronounced "DAY-mop"), with about ...

The electronic structure of atoms and molecules is the series of energy levels that it are possible for a bound electron to occupy. This electronic structure determines many of the defining ...

The ability to describe the internal structure of atoms is important not only for understanding the composition of matter, but also for designing new experiments to explore fundamental physics.

The positions of all the atoms in a sample of a metallic glass have been measured experimentally — fulfilling a decades-old dream for glass scientists, and raising the prospect of fresh insight into ...

Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) have developed a novel method for investigating the internal structure of atoms and discovered ...

Hollow atoms are special atoms with multiple missing electrons in their inner shells, while their outer shells are still fully or partially filled with electrons. Studying the production mechanisms, ...

Q: What happens to the world when you get down to really low temperatures, and why is that of interest to you? Luis Orozco: Probably the most important thing that low temperature brings us is that ...

If you were to take any object in the Universe that's made of normal matter ⁠— anything a human being could touch, see, or otherwise detect an interaction with using our bodies ⁠— you'd find that you ...

Free falling: Einstein's equivalence principle holds that the motion of freely-falling bodies (whether apples, oranges, or anything else) is independent of their composition. The Cold Atom Laboratory ...