Radiation Damage

Researchers create an ‘atomic movie’ showing how atoms roam before a radiation-driven decay

March 25, 2026 Reported by AI Image generated by AI Fact checked

Scientists at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society and international collaborators say they have reconstructed a real-time “movie” of atoms moving for up to a picosecond before an electron-transfer-mediated decay (ETMD) event, showing that nuclear motion and geometry can strongly influence when the decay occurs and what it produces.