One renowned game designer, Jesse Schell, is aiming to bring these elements to life with a toy-and app combo that lets kids build molecules and learn about bonds. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette takes a look ...

Atoms are made up of a nucleus, protons and electrons. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Atoms are the basic units of matter ...

Everything we can see and touch, and quite a lot that we can’t as well, is made of tiny particles called atoms. Some substances, like particles of this iron, contain only one kind of atom.

About 98% of the atoms in the human body are renewed each year. This surprising fact is discussed by Dr. Paul C. Aebersold of Oak Ridge in the latest Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution.

Crucial to the properties of matter, atoms are widely known as the building blocks of the universe. Harking back to your grade school science classes, you might remember atoms are made up of ...

David Nadlinger, who traps atoms for his quantum computing research at the University of Oxford, captured this image on August 7 using a standard DSLR camera. The photo shows a pinprick of a ...

If you rejigger carbon atoms, what do you get? Diamond. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Carbon is an incredible element.