Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in Atom & Cosmos ... are not mere background objects ...

I hope I'm not undoing 100 years of science education ... a picture of a single barium atom in their lab," Nadlinger said. "It was a single bright speck on a dark background, apart from some ...

The photo shows a pinprick of a positively charged strontium atom illuminated by a blue-violet light on a black background ... an Ion Trap," won the overall science photography prize put on ...

That constraint means the atoms don’t scatter light as they normally would, three teams of researchers report in the Nov. 19 Science ... dense atom clouds. “The way they interact with light ...

That power is contained in the atom, the fundamental unit in nature. An infinitesimal universe in itself, the atom consists of a nucleus of protons and neutrons, around which electrons swing in ...

It is not accurate enough for the needs of modern science. Its spin is gradually slowing ... If the world’s official time is kept by the atom clock, the length of the day, in atomic hours ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Getting upset over nothing? Well, you're not being ridiculous: Some atoms may form actual ...