Fabio Benatti and Roberto Floreanini, of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Trieste, Italy, propose using atom interferometers to search for granularity.

ECONOMIST: Planck-scale physics

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.

ECONOMIST: The EU and Brussels

Since 2003, when Iran's nuclear program was first disclosed, the greater Middle East has seen an explosion of interest in the atom.

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