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Nobel Prize of Neutron Discoverer to Be Sold at Auction
The 1935 Nobel Prize awarded to English physicist James Chadwick for his discovery of the neutron will be offered at Tuesday morning (June 3).
Seeing Coldest Blobs in the Universe in New Light
A new theoretical model offers a fix for the heating effect that destroys Bose-Einstein condensate when physicists view the super-chilled gas with lasers.
3 Chemists Win Nobel for Computer Modeling Work
The scientists laid the foundation for powerful computer models that are used to understand and predict complex chemical processes.
Wow! New Technique Peers Inside Individual Molecules
A new, light-based microscope has unprecedented resolution that can reveal the vibrations of individual bonds between atoms
Image Gallery: Stunning Peek Inside Molecules
A new technique has allowed scientists to peer inside individual molecules, watching the vibration of bonds between atoms.
Mysteriously Shrinking Proton Continues to Puzzle Physicists
Mystery remains: Why don't proton measurements add up?
Quantum Meets Macro: Strange Particle Behavior Found
Physicists shined laser light photons at atoms and found that sometimes, the two became entangled.
How Many Neutrons and Protons Can Get Along? Maybe 7,000
Physicists have estimated a limit for the number of different atomic nuclei variations that can be created.
