When most of us picture an atom, we think about a small nucleus made of protons and neutrons orbited by one or more electrons. We view these electrons as point-like while rapidly orbiting the nucleus.

This video explores the fundamental components of an atom, including protons, neutrons, and electrons, challenging the traditional model that depicts electrons as orbiting the nucleus. It highlights ...

Atom Computing describes itself as “a company obsessed with building the world’s most scalable quantum computers out of optically trapped neutral atoms.” The company recently revealed it had spent the ...

Neutrons have a huge amount of potential to advance science in various fields. To produce the free neutrons needed for scientific experimentation, a new facility is being constructed in Sweden. The ...

Unless you're interested in isotopic labeling, neutrons don't figure much into chemistry. Neutral in charge and a bit bigger than a proton, the neutron neither gives an atom its name nor determines ...

Lee G. Sobotka is in the Department of Physics and the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis, Missouri 63130, USA, and in the Department of Chemistry, ...