Scientists from the PTB and the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK), both Germany, have carried out pioneering optical measurements of highly charged ions with unprecedented precision. To ...

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, ...

Keeping cool: artist’s impression of how atoms (red) are held in place with laser beams and the ion (blue) with electric fields. (Courtesy: University of Amsterdam) A new technique that allows ...

New laser spectroscopy technique to understand atomic and nuclear structure of radioactive atoms. ScienceDaily. Retrieved August 28, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 02 / ...

Atomic and molecular collision processes are the physical interactions of atoms and molecules when they are brought into close contact with each other and with electrons, protons, neutrons or ions.

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Optical atomic clocks are the most accurate measuring instruments ever built and are becoming key tools for basic and applied research, for example to test the constancy of natural constants or for ...

Atomic-resolution imaging. The description sounds so absolute, so ultimate, so technically demanding. Yet nowadays, images that resolve individual atoms are so common. Journals, conference lectures, ...

Inside the microchips powering the device you're reading this on, the atoms have a hidden order all their own. A team led by ...

Update: This article was updated on Sept. 11, 2017 by Rachel Ross, Live Science Contributor. Imagine plopping an atom down on a scale. As you do so, skin cells that are trillions of atoms thick flake ...

Niels Bohr was one of the foremost scientists of modern physics, best known for his substantial contributions to quantum theory and his Nobel Prize-winning research on the structure of atoms. Born in ...