Atoms were created after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago. As the hot, dense new universe cooled, ... Rutherford's model of the atom is still the basic model that is used today.

One hundred years ago, Ernest Rutherford decided to shoot some stuff at atoms and toppled then-current atomic theory. Physicist and blogger Rhett Allain walks through the rise of six atomic models.

1st 'atom tornado' created from swirling vortex of helium atoms. News. By Ben Turner published 14 September 2021 The beams could be used to peak at unseen subatomic details.

It is a story of how ideas changed about the nature of the atom. These are the notes (and diagrams) I use when I teach the atomic nature of matter to non-science majors. The best thing about this ...

The world's biggest atom smasher -- the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider that straddles the Swiss-French border -- set another record today by colliding protons at three times the previous record ...

The world's largest atom smasher has "given birth" to a set of four ultraheavy particles — called top quarks. The formation of these chubby-but-tiny quadruplets, at the Large Hadron Collider in ...