Carbon dioxide’s powerful heat-trapping effect has been traced to a quirk of its quantum structure. The finding may explain climate change better than any computer model.

Due to its enormous 60-atom size, the overall molecule has a staggeringly high number of ways to vibrate -- at least 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 vibrational quantum states when the ...

Molecules like CO 2 can absorb them only when the packets have exactly the right amount of energy to bump the molecule up to a different quantum mechanical state. Carbon dioxide usually sits in its ...

Researchers in Korea have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) technology that predicts molecular properties by learning ...

The Bohr model is a neat but quite imperfect depiction of the inner workings of an atom before things got too muddled up by quantum principles. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

A rare and bewildering intermediate between crystal and glass can be the most stable arrangement for some combinations of atoms, according to a study from the University of Michigan.

Niels Bohr's model of the hydrogen atom—first published 100 years ago and commemorated in a special issue of Nature—is simple, elegant, revolutionary, and wrong. Well, "wrong" isn't exactly ...

In the end, they calculated that the energy of the Bob carbon atom had decreased on average, and thus that energy had been extracted and released into the environment. This happened despite the fact ...

One hundred years after Niels Bohr published his model of the atom, a special issue of Nature explores its legacy — and how much there is still to learn about atomic structure.

In quantum mechanics, the closer things are, the stranger things get. And that’s definitely true of a new MIT study that pushed the limits of atom proximity by a factor of ten.

His particular bone of contention was the Bohr–Sommerfeld model of the atom, named after the two physicists, Niels Bohr and Arnold Sommerfeld, who developed it in the 1910s.