MIT researchers found that metals retain hidden atomic patterns once believed to vanish during manufacturing. These patterns ...

MIT researchers found that a hidden atomic order can persist in metals even after they undergo extreme processing. For ...

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"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

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For example, the atomic number of chlorine is 17. Every chlorine atom has 17 protons and 17 electrons. It has 17 positive charges and 17 negative charges, meaning that it is neutral overall. Atoms of ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...