In a new set of results, chemists have laid the foundation for a single-atom illumination strategy called barium tagging. Their achievement is the first known imaging of single atoms in a solid noble ...

Bill Fairbank is looking for...nothing. The Colorado State University professor of physics studies the fundamental matter particles known as neutrinos, and an exceedingly rare instance of radioactive ...

Six weeks ago a report reached the U. S. about an atomic explosion which took place in a Berlin laboratory—the most violent atomic explosion ever accomplished by human agency (TIME, Feb. 6). This news ...

Physicists are used to dealing with rare events and very small quantities, but rarely do they tackle a challenge of the kind facing the Enriched Xenon Observatory, or EXO. To find what they're looking ...