This 'solar system' model of the atom is the way that most people think about atoms today. It is known as the Rutherford-Bohr model of atomic structure. The neutron was difficult to discover ...

Researchers use atomic force microscopy to image the chemical structure of the small molecule ... if we have a charge transfer or if we exchange one atom or dissociate one atom,” explains ...

A silver single-atom chain demonstrates atomic-scale strain sensing and piezoresistive effects, advancing nanotechnology and ...

Scientists at Columbia Engineering have created a machine learning algorithm that can observe the pattern produced by ...

One of the study’s key insights is the influence of hyperfine structure on atomic collisions. Hyperfine structure results ...

So convincing is this model that after only twelve years it is known no longer as “the atomic model of Rutherford and Bohr,” but is simply taken for granted as “the atom.” In this ...