A teenager from Zimbabwe wants to prove energy comes from the most unexpected places — like discarded peanut shells. The 19-year-old student, Kudzaishe Chole, used peanut shells, water, and a good ...

Mostly a large waste stream to almond growers, almond shells and hulls turn out to have many commercial potentials, as mentioned in the article “Can Chemists Turn California’s Almond Trash into ...

Atoms are normally made of a nucleus and electrons. But scientists are proposing a hunt for a new variety of atom without either. Tauonium (sometimes called “ditauonium” or “true tauonium”) would ...

Unusual filling of different sub-shells due to quantum confinement leads to a stable superatom that is also highly magnetic Industry uses magnetic materials in applications ranging from data storage ...

Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is, it was roughly ...

A cloud of ultracold atoms is like a motel with a neon “no vacancy” sign. If a guest at the motel wants to switch rooms, they’re out of luck. No vacant rooms means there’s no choice but to stay put.