Chemists have used synchrotron light sources to observe the electron clouds on the surface of graphene, producing a series of images that reveal how folds and ripples in the remarkable material can ...

A single electron cloud in molecular nitrogen has been photographed. The snapshot is recorded so rapidly that it might become possible to image electron clouds as they change during fundamental ...

About a half-billion years ago, the early Paleozoic seas were filled with now-extinct creatures called trilobites, which had flat, oval, segmented shells. Recently, a team of theoretical physicists ...

The recombination of electron shells in molecules, taking just a few dozen attoseconds (a billionth of a billionth of a second) can now be viewed 'live,' thanks to a new method. The recombination of ...

Acids come with warning labels for good reason — any acid much stronger than vinegar can cause a nasty burn to your flesh, or a fizzing pit in your metal surfaces. But when you get down to the ...

A group of researchers led by the Zhejiang University of Technology in China has proposed to use two sulfone-based organic molecules known as diphenylsulfone (DPS) and 4,4′-dimethyldiphenylsulfone ...

They are the invisible glue that hold molecules, the world around us and our own bodies together. Now researchers have managed to see the electron bonds which bind atoms to each other for the first ...

Calculations of the electron densities of a Rydberg atom shown at three different times after the arrival of the pump pulse. The snapshot on the left is at 5.6 ps after the pump, the centre image at ...

A couple of weeks back I posted an answer to a question from a Twitter follower’s child, who asked “How Strong Is Space?” That was fun, so here’s another kid-question answered, this one from my own ...