Single-atom photocatalyst enables green, oxidant-free C–H cross-coupling reactions

Chemists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a single-atom photocatalytic strategy that enables ...

Double-slit with single atom shows quantum to classical transition

A single atom as a movable slit: Researchers realize Einstein's thought experiment in original form, observing ...
IFLScience

World's First X-Ray Of A Single Atom Achieved

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Inverse

Scientists X-ray a Single Atom for the First Time

Ohio University physicist Saw Wai Hla and his colleagues were able to scan a single iron atom hidden amid a complex molecule, something that’s never been done with an X-ray before. Extremely powerful ...
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Scientists capture the X-ray fingerprint of a single atom for the first time — and this could change everything

In a quiet lab at Argonne National Laboratory, Saw-Wai Hla and his team were huddled around their instruments late one night when they detected the spectral signature they had been searching for. The ...
Futurism

Scientists Just X-Rayed a Single Atom

For the first time, a team of scientists has imaged a single atom by using X-rays. And according to the resulting study published in the journal Nature, it offers transformative advantages over other ...
BGR

This Is The First-Ever X-Ray Of A Single Atom

Scientists have finally glimpsed chemistry at its smallest level after capturing the first-ever X-ray of a single atom. Atoms are the tiniest particles in our universe, and they're the basic ...
GEN

Single-Atom Editing of Heterocycles Catalyzed with Light

Heterocycles, molecular rings found in many pharmaceuticals, have a reputation for stubbornly resisting modification. That is, in a heterocycle, heteroatoms of one type aren’t easily swapped for ...
New Atlas

Quad-storage method writes data to a single atom in four different ways

You can cram much more quantum processing power into a given space if you use four different ways to store data on a single atom, according to new research. The method unlocks more powerful quantum ...
New Atlas

Diamond data storage breakthrough writes and rewrites down to single atom

Diamond is a promising material for data storage, and now scientists have demonstrated a new way to cram more data onto it, down to a single atom. The technique bypasses a physical limit by writing ...
IFLScience

X-Ray Of A Single Atom Achieved In World First

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...