The Peaceful Atom

Gillian Schutte follows the transformative journey of the atom from a symbol of destruction to a beacon of sustainable energy ...
You probably learned in high school chemistry class that core electrons don't participate in chemical bonding.
Earth reached its finale, the show pulled back a curtain that had been shimmering in the background all along. Atom Eins wasn’t just another child soldier raised under Boy K’s command.
We talk a good game of poverty prevention but nothing ever changes. It's time to get real, says Big Issue founder John Bird.
When scientists at Caltech revealed that they had assembled the world’s largest neutral-atom quantum computer, the ...
A strange kind of geometry governs how particles move inside matter. Now, for the first time, physicists have uncovered its full shape – and it could transform how we design materials ...
Quantum computing engineers in Sydney have demonstrated a clean way to entangle nuclear spins inside silicon chips.
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Earth finale doesn’t tiptoe to the finish line — it storms through with betrayals, power shifts, and one creepy cliffhanger.
As the nucleus splits, it also releases its neutrons. These neutrons bounce around at incredible speeds until some eventually ...
One of the things I love most about 1979’s Alien is the practical effects. The movie still looks incredibly good by modern ...
Researchers kept more than 6,000 qubits coherent while operating with 99.98% accuracy. Here's why that matters for quantum ...