The short answer is; no. We will never see atoms using visible light, simply because the wavelength of visible light (around 400 to 700 nanometers) is larger than the size of an atom (around 0.1 to ...

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Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him the 2011 ...

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

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Determining whether or not an image was created by generative AI is harder than ever, but it's still possible if you look out for these telltale signs. My title is Senior Features Writer, which is ...

The Historic images gallery with centralized access and online searchable database, enables us to bring together the image collections of multiple institutions. You can find historical photos ...

Book your free Museum entry ticket online in advance. See how artists and scientists view the natural world through more than 100 images from the Museum's collection in the Images of Nature gallery.

For the first time, scientists have successfully mapped the shape of an electron while it moves through a solid. This groundbreaking discovery in quantum physics, led by MIT physicist Riccardo Comin ...

Meghan Markle is a former American actress, best known for her role as paralegal Rachel Zane in US legal drama Suits. She began dating Prince Harry in 2016 and the couple announced their ...