Atoms

Construction on IceCube, the world's largest neutrino observatory that is looking specifically for high-energy neutrinos, which are created in violent cosmic events such as super novae and gamma ray bursts, was completed last weekend.

Physicists from the ALICE detector team at CERN's Large Hadron Collider have discovered that the quark-gluon plasma created at these energies does not form a gas as expected, but a liquid instead.

Researchers have used lasers to cool molecules, for possible use in quantum computers.

NIST scientists have built an atomic clock based on a single aluminum atom that would neither gain nor lose one second in about 3.7 billion years.

Contrary to claims from some scientists that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was being sabotaged from the future to save the world, it is now back up and running.

Technically no clock can be more accurate than cesium standards such as NIST-F1, but researchers have developed an experimental atomic clock based on ytterbium atoms that boasts precision comparable to that of NIST-F1.

Scientists develop a superconducting metal only two atoms thick.