Everything we can see and touch, and quite a lot that we can’t as well, is made of tiny particles called atoms. Some substances, like particles of this iron, contain only one kind of atom. Iron is an ...

Big question. Grit, determination, hardworking, handsome, charming, funny. Teacher: Well, I guess. But you're actually made of atoms. In fact, everything is made of atoms. Presenter: It's funny, ...

Ilja Gerhardt and his colleagues are building bridges in physics: The researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and the university there have brought together ...

The geysers of Enceladus, this icy moon of Saturn, continue to reveal their secrets long after the Cassini probe's passage.

The first “atoms” in the universe were not atoms at all—they were just nuclei that had not found electrons yet. The simplest nucleus, that of common hydrogen, is a bare proton with no frills. When the ...

Organic compounds have been discovered on Mars in recent years – but how did they get there? A new study examines the different ways that one type in particular, thiophene, may have formed, and ...