Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atom's nucleus, using the atom's own electrons as "messengers" ...

Ever since the nucleus of the atom was discovered in 1911, scientists have split, fused and smashed nuclei together to unravel its internal structure. Among the numerous researchers worldwide who are ...

Part of Physics (Single Science) Unit 1: Atomic and nuclear physics Most of the mass and all of the positive charge of an atom is in the nucleus. Most of an atom is empty space, (a vacuum). In 1897, ...

Students use the terms isotope, atomic number, mass number, and atomic mass. Atomic Theory: Structure of the Atom: Students use the terms isotope, atomic number, mass number, and atomic mass to ...

The Bohr model, introduced by Danish physicist Niels Bohr in 1913, was a key step on the journey to understand atoms. Ancient Greek thinkers already believed that matter was composed of tiny basic ...

Ed-tech teachers in India are known to employ unusual methods to help their students understand tricky concepts. From using Bollywood songs about scientific names to making Hindi mnemonic devices to ...