News articles tagged with 'atom' (Page 32)
New ultra-powerful microscope probes atomic world
— 25 Jan 2008 09:35 | HealthA unique electron microscope, the first of its kind in the world, was unveiled yesterday at the STFC Daresbury Laboratory in Warrington. It will enable scientists to study atoms within…
Debut of TEAM 0.5, the best microscope
— 23 Jan 2008 10:16 | PhysicsTEAM 0.5, the world's most powerful transmission electron microscope - capable of producing images with half-angstrom resolution (half a ten-billionth of a meter), less than the diameter…
Scientists discover new method of observing interactions in nanoscale systems
— 16 Jan 2008 20:33 | PhysicsScientists have used new optical technologies to observe interactions in nanoscale systems that Heisenberg's uncertainty principle usually would prohibit, according to a study published…
Silver-rich lumps
— 10 Jan 2008 17:36 | ChemistryNanoscopic 'lumps' of atoms, known as clusters, are the speciality of a research team headed by Dieter Fenske from the University of Karlsruhe and the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. The…
Mobile metal atoms
— 3 Jan 2008 17:34 | ChemistryMobile phones, notebook computers, iPods - the boom in portable computing and communications devices is dependent on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries to deliver power. These batteries…
How atoms change places
— 1 Jan 2008 19:27 | PhysicsScientists at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, in collaboration with scientists from Harvard and Boston University, have achieved direct control and observation of a fundamental…
Device generates and traps rare ultracold molecules
— 13 Dec 2007 08:23 | PhysicsPhysicists at the University of Rochester have combined an atom-chiller with a molecule trap, creating for the first time a device that can generate and trap huge numbers of elusive-yet-valuable…
Student research makes the pages of Nature
— 3 Dec 2007 18:49 | Geology and palaeontologyLeslie Hayden's research into deep Earth interactions has led to some important findings, particularly for someone so new to the field, and the scientific world is paying attention.…
Buckyball birth observed by Sandia nanotech researcher
— 26 Nov 2007 22:27 | PhysicsAlmost everyone in the scientific community has heard of buckyballs, but no one until Sandia's Jianyu Huang has seen one being born. Buckyballs - more formally known as buckminsterfullerene…
Researchers set new chemical world record
— 26 Nov 2007 19:02 | ChemistryChemists from the University of Delaware, in collaboration with a colleague at the University of Wisconsin, have set a new world record for the shortest chemical bond ever recorded…