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 ...

A long-standing mystery in materials science is beginning to unravel as researchers directly probe the hidden atomic ...

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, ...

The Bohr model, introduced by Danish physicist Niels Bohr in 1913, was a key step on the journey to understand atoms. Ancient Greek thinkers already believed that matter was composed of tiny basic ...

Materials called relaxor ferroelectrics have been used for decades in technologies like ultrasounds, microphones, and sonar ...

Researchers at the Kastler Brossel Laboratory in Paris have made the most precise measurement of one of the fundamental constants, called the fine-structure constant, providing physicists with a vital ...

Accelerator-based high-energy electron diffraction determines 3D atomic structure of materials New method using ultrashort ...

MIT-led researchers have, for the first time, directly mapped the 3D atomic and polar structure of relaxor ferroelectrics, materials critical to sensors and energy devices. Using multi-slice electron ...