In my previous blog, Reading the tea leaves, I stated that: “it is impossible to divide an atom in two while maintaining a non-explosive environment”. John Michael Williams, Senior Adjunct Faculty at ...

I love thinking about things I can’t see with just my eyes. Like the atoms that make up everything. I asked my friend Fred Gittes how to figure out the number of atoms in a leaf. He’s a physicist at ...

The detection and study of isotopes, atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons, could expand the scope of physics research and enable new scientific discoveries. So far, rare ...

Adrian Cansell loading a 100mm silicon wafer into a 200 kV ion implanter. University of Surrey Ion Beam Centre, Author provided Lord Rutherford was the first to explain, in 1911, that atoms are made ...

Having read your very interesting article on the problems of creating a standard kilogram, I was left with a sense of “What’s the problem?” (22 February, p 32). If we go back to the definition of a ...