In school, you probably learned that an atom was like a little solar system ... but it is apparently closer to reality than the old-school model. Electrons are one of those funny things that ...

Electrons oscillate around the nucleus of an atom on extremely short timescales ... suggested a new method to make ...

It gave scientists the ability to predict the probable location of an electron in the atom. Many will remember the s, p, d and f orbitals from high school chemistry class. These were developed via ...

For the first time, scientists have successfully mapped the shape of an electron while it moves through ... It can move ...

When two hydrogen atoms get close enough, the electron from each atom feels an attraction from the proton in the other atom's nucleus. This attraction pulls the atoms together. The electrons end up ...

The picture shows a close-up of one carbon atom. A hydrogen atom has one proton as the nucleus and one electron in the region outside the nucleus. The electron and proton are attracted to each other.

Researchers precisely removed a gold nanoparticle's core atom and outermost electron to study how magnetic spin affects its catalytic activity. (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers from the Hefei ...

Scientists precisely removed a gold nanocluster's core atom and outer electron, revealing how spin state affects catalytic activity without structural loss. (Nanowerk News) In a breakthrough that ...