Adatoms are single atoms that get adsorbed onto the surface of a solid material and are known to hop randomly from one spot ...

It includes observations and conclusions that students are meant to make on their own. In a solid, the atoms are very attracted to one another. The atoms vibrate but stay in fixed positions because of ...

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 ...

Now, a team has used a type of artificial intelligence to confirm the existence of a bizarre new state of matter, one in which potassium atoms exhibit properties of both a solid and a liquid at ...

The pressure at the heart of our planet is immense, so experts initially believed the core must be completely solid and that the iron atoms within it, which are arranged in a massive hexagonal ...

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, ...

These atoms inherit the dynamics of high-temperature liquid atoms, revealing the nature of metallic glasses as part-solid and part-liquid. Results were published in Nature Materials. Condensed ...