(Nanowerk News) Freestanding clusters of twenty gold atoms take the shape of a pyramid, researchers discovered. This is in contrast with most elements, which organize themselves by forming shells ...

At first glance, you’d be forgiven for mistaking this image as a watercolour painting. But the image is very much real, and was snapped by photographer Juan Carlos Casado in Tenerife earlier this ...

Clusters composed of a few atoms tend to be spherical. They are usually organized in shells of atoms around a central atom. This is the case for many elements, but not for gold! Experiments and ...