A super-charged solar storm known as the “Gannon event” forced the Earth’s plasmasphere—a doughnut-shaped shell of charged particles that normally envelops the planet—to shrink to roughly one-fifth of ...

Atoms with more than 4 valence electrons tend to gain electrons to achieve a stable configuration, forming negative ions ...

Physics is often about recognizing patterns, sometimes repeated across vastly different scales. For instance, moons orbit planets in the same way planets orbit stars, which in turn orbit the center of ...

Researchers at the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) have definitively resolved a two-decade-long controversy regarding ...

The shapes of atomic orbitals also affect the spectroscopic properties of atoms and molecules. The absorption and emission of ...

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