The idea was to get one of each type of atom to stick together to become a single atom of element 118.
Physicists at the University of New South Wales have created a transistor composed of a single atom, which is an amazing feat of nanoengineering, and could provide a better foundation for scalable quantum computing.
How did two atoms of hydrogen wind up welded to a single atom of oxygen?
In the experiment at Bonn, the researchers fired two lasers in sequence at a single atom of cesium, moving it to the left or right.
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They were structurally similar to cytisine in many ways, sharing the location of a nitrogen atom in a particular place on a pair of bicycle-like carbon rings.
The nebulous field of nanotechnology, freighted with as much hype as legitimate promise, boils down to the process of manipulating matter on a molecular scale (a nanometer is one billionth of a meter, about ten times the width of a hydrogen atom).
Coupling is a process for determining the wave function of an atom that has a large number of electrons.
An amino acid consists of a carbon atom with four groups of atoms attached to it.
In fact, Honda (nyse: HMC - news - people ) delivered the car to me on the back of a truck, lest one atom of precious hydrogen be wasted.
"If a dark matter particle comes in and hits the argon, the recoiling atom gets a kick of energy and it quickly tries to get rid of it, " says Dr Ghag.
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Even if experimenters bounce the beams to and fro to increase the effective length of an interferometer's arms to more than 100 kilometres, the expected difference in length between the two beams' paths still amounts to less than a hundred-millionth of the diameter of a hydrogen atom.
Imagine that the visible universe and everything in it was once contained in a volume many times smaller than the size of a single atom.
After five years of arduous synthesis and testing, Stirling's researchers came up with their first promising tweak of thalidomide, Revlimid, by moving one oxygen atom and adding a bit of ammonia.
Then there is the Atomium, a giant-sized more-or-less model of an atom put up in 1958 as a tribute to the potential of the nuclear age.
Over the next two years, the Atom lineage will catch up with its larger brethren, first with the launch of a 32nm Atom, code named Cedar Trail, which will sample this year and ship in volume in 2012, and then with a 22nm part, which will ship in volume in 2013.
The principle behind these experiments is that particles hitting the xenon cause the nucleus of the atom to give off a little bit of light.
Intel is expected to show a version of its Atom chip that is the first specifically designed for tablets.
That causes the waves to overlap and creates a kind of collective atom as predicted by Satyendra Bose and Albert Einstein in 1924.
Researchers at Griffith University have managed to snap the first image of a single atom's shadow and, while the dark spot may be physically small, the implications for the field of quantum computing are huge.
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Intel landed in the tablet market with all the subtlety of a bag full of bricks Monday, announcing it has signed up more than 35 customers for a new version of its Atom processor targeting tablet computers.
Once that is done, another laser pulse will jostle the virus from its ground state into an excited state, just as a single atom is excited by moving one of its electrons from a lower to a higher orbital.
Methylation, the addition to a base of a group of three hydrogens and a carbon atom, is one way in which genes are regulated.
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So Coe moved a nitrogen atom, too, and suddenly had a series of compounds to test that did exactly what Pfizer had wanted a drug to do.
What was a continuous, miraculous conduit from the depths of the Earth or the heart of the atom becomes a noxious, tangled and inaccessible mess about which, for months, nothing can be done.
The IBM team's innovation to create the first single molecule picture, of a molecule called pentacene, was to use the tip to pick up a single, small molecule made up of a carbon and an oxygen atom.
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This was the discovery of graphene, a form of carbon one atom thick.
Impress got their hands on an unofficially released MSI Wind PC (the mini-PC, not the low-cost laptop) and subjected the 1.33GHz Atom processor to a suite of standard tests.
In particular, when methyl groups (made up of a carbon atom and three hydrogen atoms) are plastered on to a gene, they can stop that gene from being expressed altogether.
Within, you'll find a 1.6GHz Atom N270 CPU, 1GB of RAM, two USB 2.0 ports, a 60GB HDD, 1.3 megapixel camera, Ethernet, WiFi, Windows XP Home, a proprietary security suite to keep kids from picking up a new favorite stalker and ten age appropriate software and game titles.
Intel announced a new version of its low-end Atom microprocessor, but aimed at the market for tablet computers, as well as for a new generation of netbook computers that are even lighter than the ones being sold today.
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