Using nuclear magnetic resonance, researchers at ETH Zurich have studied the atomic environments of single platinum atoms in ...

A precious metal used everywhere from car exhaust systems to fuel cells, platinum is an incredibly efficient catalyst—but it's costly and carbon-intensive. Now, a serendipitous collaboration between ...

It’s summer, it’s hot, and these atoms are going for a swim. For the first time ever, materials scientists recorded individual solid atoms moving through a liquid solution.A team of engineers ...

In a solid, the atoms are very attracted to one another. The atoms vibrate but stay in fixed positions because of their strong attractions for one another. Heating a solid increases the motion of the ...

Atoms within the enormous ball of iron in Earth's inner core may move around much more than previously thought, which could explain recent findings about the core's surprising softness.

Since atoms don’t have a solid surface, in one sense there’s nothing to “touch,” because there’s never a situation where one boundary meets another boundary. But “touch” also conveys a sense of ...

The iron atoms that make up the Earth’s solid inner core are tightly jammed together by astronomically high pressures — the highest on the planet. But even here, there’s space for wiggle room, ...

Per these models, the atoms were stuck together in a hexagonal pattern — meaning there was effectively a huge solid metal ball at the heart of our planet (the inner core), swiveling in a pool of ...

Atoms make up everything, so it makes sense that scientists want to image them in every way imaginable. In 2008, for instance, physicists imaged a hydrogen atom using an electron microscope. In ...

Atoms within the enormous ball of iron in Earth's inner core may move around much more than previously thought, which could explain recent findings about the core's surprising softness.