All Articles Tagged As: atoms

Super atoms turn the periodic table upside down (7/2/2008)

Researchers have developed a technique for generating atom clusters made from silver and other metals. Surprisingly enough, these so-called super atoms (clusters of 13 silver atoms, for example) behave in the same way as individual atoms and have opened up a whole new branch of chemistry ...> Full Article

Protons partner with neutrons more often than other protons (6/19/2008)

Fast-moving protons are much more likely to pair up with fast-moving neutrons than with other protons in the nuclei of atoms ...> Full Article

By color-coding atoms, new electron microscope promises big advance in materials analysis (2/26/2008)

A new electron microscope recently installed in Cornell's Duffield Hall is enabling scientists for the first time to form images that uniquely identify individual atoms in a crystal and see how those atoms bond to one another. And in living color. ...> Full Article

New Experimental Atomic Clock Surpasses Accuracy Of Current U.S. Standard Time Clock (2/15/2008)

A next-generation atomic clock developed by researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado at Boulder has been shown to be accurate to within one second over 200 million years, surpassing the accuracy of the current U.S. time standard atomic clock more than two-fold. ...> Full Article