The length of bonds connecting water molecules could demonstrate quantum effects and help explain some of water’s weirdness.

An essay by Tom Siegfried, SN's Editor in Chief, explores how signals from space to Earth could establish the reality of Einstein's worst fear.

Raman spectroscopy may offer doctors, dentists and forensic scientists a better tool for molecular detection.

Electron microscopes can now image single atoms of hydrogen.

When the Large Hadron Collider powers up this fall, protons moving at almost the speed of light will collide with energies high enough, physicists hope, to solve matter’s biggest mysteries.

An optical trap lets atoms in but not out, and it can be used to study matter at ultracold temperatures.

A Dutch science teacher found a novel celestial object that had eluded the notice of astronomers.