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Is the whole quantum universe inside the atom?

I keep coming back to a strange idea: what if everything we know about quantum physics is already encoded inside a single atom? Not in a mystical sense, but in the very real way that one tiny system ...
Nanowerk

Atom Probe Tomography: Uncovering the 3D Atomic Structure of Materials

What is Atom Probe Tomography? Atom Probe Tomography (APT) is a powerful analytical technique that provides three-dimensional (3D) imaging and chemical composition analysis of materials at the atomic ...
Ars Technica

This is the first X-ray taken of a single atom

Atomic-scale imaging emerged in the mid-1950s and has been advancing rapidly ever since—so much so, that back in 2008, physicists successfully used an electron microscope to image a single hydrogen ...
BBC

2. The history of the atom

In this episode, Dr Sunayana Bhargava and Tulela Pea explore the history of the atomic model, and how that has developed over the past two centuries. Suitable for: AQA, Edexcel, OCR. For more ...