You’d be forgiven for thinking that a large tuning fork, a nail, some Blu-Tack and a guitar amp sounded more like the contents of a DIY music studio than a science lab. But they are, in fact, all the ...

Ever wonder what an atom might sound like, if you could tap it like a tuning fork? Wonder no more, scientists say; they report they've managed just such a "tap" and recorded the result. Researchers at ...

You may be familiar with matryoshka dolls: nested sets of painted figurines that fit within painted figurines. In the case of wooden dolls, the concept is pretty straightforward: hollow out a large ...

My degree is chemistry (though I haven't worked in the field for some time) , but I'm going to have read this again a couple times. I see how the other atoms could come between the nucleus and the ...

In 1913, legendary Danish physicist Niels Bohr created the Bohr model to help mankind understand what an atom looks like. Nearly a century later in 2014, scientists from Columbia University and Sweden ...

A collaboration between researchers from Virginia Tech and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the US has built a chip-scale device that can trap and control sound waves in a way that mimics the ...

Atoms are the building blocks of our world. Many have been around since right after the Big Bang created the universe nearly 14 billion years ago. And if life on Earth is made of atoms that are from ...

The age of smart, self-optimizing materials has begun. A programmable metamaterial has been developed that shatters the limits of old material science. US researchers at the University of Connecticut ...