Andrew Hall likes circles. In his orbs series, for example, he says he was inspired by the patterns created by, among other things, electrons circling an atom. "Atomic orbits are definitely something ...

The planet Jupiter keeps asteroids on stable orbits -- and in a similar way, electrons can be stabilized in their orbit around the atomic nucleus. Calculations have now been verified in a new ...

No audio available for this content. While in orbit, the Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC) mission will use the navigation signals from GPS coupled with precise knowledge of GPS satellite orbits and ...

For millennia, atoms had been phantoms, widely suspected to exist but remaining stubbornly invisible — though not indivisible, as their name (Greek for “uncuttable”) originally implied. By the start ...

“. . . it may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in the former will produce an ...

The Atomic Age’s most iconic symbol is back on Claremont’s College Avenue. A 1958 sculpture of an atomic whirl has returned to the facade of a Pomona College science hall some 18 months after it was ...

SOME writers still contrast the static atom of Lewis and Langmuir with the dynamic atom of Bohr, as if the two alternatives were mutually exclusive. It does not seem to be realised generally that any ...

This release is available in German. Planets can orbit a star for billions of years. Electrons circling the atomic nucleus are often visualized as tiny planets. But due to quantum effects, the ...