James grew up in the arcades of the 80s and has played games on everything from the Milton Bradley Microvision to the PlayStation 5. He worked in gaming retail during the PS1/PS2 eras, and even had a ...

A cluster of 7,000 sodium atoms has just been coaxed into behaving as a single, ghostly wave, stretching quantum weirdness into a realm that starts to look uncomfortably like everyday matter. Instead ...

Conventional as well as compact laser-based particle acceleration schemes hinge on accelerating electric fields and are therefore ineffective for neutral atoms, which do not respond to these fields.

Researchers at the Nanoscience Center at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have shown that dramatic changes in the electronic properties of nanometre-sized chunks of gold occur in well-defined ...

The evaluation of reaction mechanisms is not only useful but also essential for understanding, planning and optimizing chemical reactions in a reasonable and also efficient and economical way. In ...

Combining experimental investigations and theoretical simulations, researchers have explained why platinum nanoclusters of a specific size range facilitate the hydrogenation reaction used to produce ...

A new atomic-scale spectroscopy technique has produced 3D images of a 27-atom cluster with a spatial precision of less than 0.1 nm. Created by Tim Taminiau and colleagues at QuTech of Delft University ...