Bohr’s Model of an Atom: Danish Physicist Niels Bohr received his Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen in 1911. In 1922, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the atom’s ...

New computer simulations that model every atom of a protein as it folds into its final three-dimensional form support the existence of a recently identified type of protein misfolding. Proteins must ...

FESTIVAL organisers are pushing to fulfil a town's potential as an 'epicentre of UK science'. Businesspeople and brainiacs behind the ATOM Festival of Science and Technology pledged to return to ...

The scientist John Dalton carried out a series of experiments. He concluded that all matter was made of tiny particles called atoms. He suggested that an atom was a tiny solid ball. He published his ...

Listen to the full series on BBC Sounds. Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden tested the plum pudding model. They aimed beams of positively-charged particles at very thin gold foil. These particles should ...

The virus SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the known cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The "spike" or S protein facilitates viral entry into host cells. Now a group of researchers from ...

This picture, taken at the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford University and showing a single glowing atom of strontium, is the Overall Winner in the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's ...