When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of X-rays scattering off the valence electrons surrounding ammonia molecules ...

Squeaky, cloudy or spherical - electron orbitals show where and how electrons move around atomic nuclei and molecules. In modern chemistry and physics, they have proven to be a useful model for ...

An Ohio State University emeritus professor is among this year's Nobel Prize winners. Their winning work explored how electrons move inside molecules and atoms. Electrons move at speeds of 43 miles ...

Beijing Zhongke Journal Publising Co. Ltd. Heavy fermion materials have long attracted interest in condensed matter physics for hosting correlation-driven exotic quantum states. Remarkably, the oxide ...

"We wanted to take pictures of the actual electrons that are driving that motion," Ian Gabalski, a physics doctoral student and lead author of the study, told Live Science. If scientists can ...

For the first time, scientists have used ultrafast X-ray flashes to take a direct image of a single electron as it moved during a chemical reaction. In the new study, published Aug. 20 in the journal ...