For rare spherical nuclei, this waviness just happens to cancel out. But scientists don't yet understand the reason — or if there even is one — why some of these deformed shapes are much more ...

A new paper in Energies, authored by Mansoor J. Alshehri of King Saud University in Saudi Arabia, has investigated the encapsulation of lithium atoms in different-sized spherical fullerenes.

The team takes buckminsterfullerene molecules – spherical cages formed of 60 carbon atoms – with a single krypton atom trapped inside. These molecules are then sucked into a carbon nanotube by ...

The race to build the first useful quantum computer is on and may revolutionize the world with brand new capabilities, from ...

Atoms within the ball of iron in Earth's inner core may move around more than previously thought, ... The inner core is a massive spherical lump of metal, predominantly iron, ...

In 2015 the fusion reactor at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory got a spherical upgrade for an energy-efficiency boost. ... to force atoms together and make said reaction happen, ...

SMART (Small Aspect Ratio Tokamak), the world's only fusion reactor with 'negative triangularity' constructed at the University of Sevilla in Spain, produced its first plasma.

Physicists have used a novel technique to observe individual atoms interacting in free space for the first time ever. The new technique confirms a century-old quantum mechanical theory.

Atoms within the enormous ball of iron in Earth's inner core may move around much more than previously thought, ... The inner core is a massive spherical lump of metal, predominantly iron, ...