Atomic nuclei are often described as orderly systems. Certain numbers of protons or neutrons, called magic numbers, usually ...

The idea that a hidden fourth dimension could be woven into everyday reality is no longer just a science‑fiction trope.

Researchers at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet have captured the first detailed molecular ...

Findings UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that ...

The Jahn-Teller effect, proposed by Jahn and Teller in 1937, describes how molecules or crystals with degenerate electronic ...

WE publish this week, as a special supplement, the substance of an address by Prof. N. Bohr on the development of the theory of atomic structure, and in particular of the latest form and tendencies of ...

Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have filmed atoms performing an eternal quantum dance that never ...

A newly-detected spinning galaxy filament is reshaping our understanding of cosmic structure, gas flows, and the origins of ...

OUR ideas and knowledge of the shapes of polyatomic molecules are largely confined to the ground electronic states. Comparatively little progress has been made in knowledge of the symmetries of ...

Two Pi (π) Bonds: These are formed by the sideways overlap of two pairs of p orbitals. Each pi bond contributes a region of ...

Therefore, the complete ground state electron configuration of carbon can be represented as 1s² 2s² 2px¹ 2py¹ 2pz⁰. It's ...