The gratings themselves were so small that the dimensions had to be confirmed with atomic force microscopy.
This enables the protein shell of the virus to be analysed at the atomic level - something a billion times smaller than a pinhead.
What sort of questions could he be expected to put to atomic scientists without some grasp of quantum theory?
Other ideas include building a detector to see if the spin of an atomic nucleus can be measured, or using the technique as an ultrasensitive antenna.
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One advantage of this method of making a quantum computer is that the atomic qubit stores can be manipulated relatively easily.
Reuters reports the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency will be releasing a report next month which will provide further evidence that Iran is moving forward with developing a nuclear weapon.
My desperation is lessened, however, by some of the more quantum physics theory which seems to suggest that, if at a sub-atomic level quarks can be in two places at once, then logically there must be a parallel universe where NZ were 130 all out and we are about to win.
The Bush administration says India's nuclear industry, though not its atomic weapons program, will be under tighter safeguards.
WIMPs, if they exist, would be heavy (at least in sub-atomic terms).
Barring a radical change in the technological playing field, there will never be an effective cyber equivalent of the International Atomic Energy Agency despite all the aspirations of organizations like the International Telecommunications Union to serve such a function.
But the fact that the molecules can be made and seen confirms long-held fundamental atomic theories.
India's Atomic Energy Act states that there should be no habitation within five kilometers of dumping grounds or tailing ponds.
Remarkability may be the Higgs boson of brand messaging: more atomic than things like unique selling propositions, elevator speeches and even purpose statements.
The first two, KOERI in Turkey and the Atomic Energy Centre in France, should be operational some time in 2012 when a more exhaustive test will be conducted.
He will be joined in Iraq by a team from the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Japan Atomic has been asking that the final decision be extended until they conclude their own studies, due by the end of June.
Mr. Obama said on Israeli TV that the length of time it would take Tehran to develop an atomic bomb varies, but that it could be more than a year away from the decision to build one.
The so-called stress tests will be performed on Europe's 143 working reactors and other atomic installations and will consider a range of factors, including seismic activity, flooding, and power loss at reactors.
The Obama administration has staunchly opposed allowing countries seeking nuclear-cooperation with the U.S. to engage in enrichment or reprocessing, because either path could be used to create the fissile material required to create an atomic weapon.
In 1966 Kenneth Greisen, Vadim Kuzmin and Georgiy Zatsepin showed that high-energy charged particles (cosmic rays are mostly atomic nuclei, and thus positively charged) should be slowed by collisions with the photons of the cosmic microwave background (radiation left over from the Big Bang that permeates all space).
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel peace prize for 2005 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way.
The deal now needs to be approved by the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), as well as by the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group, which regulates global civilian nuclear trade.
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, less than half the world's uranium reserves can be mined profitably at current levels.
Mr Hague said the latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency "provides further evidence" of why the international community should be concerned about Iran's nuclear programme.
The uranium claim first came under public scrutiny in March, when the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency declared documents relating to alleged uranium-trafficking by Niger to be forgeries.
U.S. and European officials said a test for any potential new negotiations will be Iran's treatment of inspectors from the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, who will visit Tehran next week.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has previously said it suspects the Parchin site may be being used for nuclear weapons-related testing.
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Minister Mikhailov of the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy has not been reluctant to proclaim what these high-performance computers will be used for, and he said in a speech in January they will be used to simulate nuclear explosions, and that the computers are, in his words, '10 times faster than any previously available in Russia.
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