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Big question. Grit, determination, hardworking, handsome, charming, funny. Teacher: Well, I guess. But you're actually made of atoms. In fact, everything is made of atoms. Presenter: It's funny, ...

Atoms on the surface can’t be blocked as easily. Finally, the researchers excited only a small number of atoms and collected the emitted photons at a narrow angle with respect to the blue excitation ...

How many atoms are there in a kilogram of silicon? This number is Avogadro’s constant and working out its value is one of the more important tasks that materials scientists face. Today, a group of ...

Three studies have demonstrated the cooling and trapping of single strontium and ytterbium atoms in two-dimensional arrays. Such arrays could lead to advances in atomic-clock technology and in quantum ...

How many ways are there to arrange 128 balls? Finding the answer is more difficult than you’d think, but could one day help us predict the shifts of avalanches or sand dunes. Mathematicians have long ...