Andrew Hall likes circles. In his orbs series, for example, he says he was inspired by the patterns created by, among other things, electrons circling an atom. "Atomic orbits are definitely something ...

“This is nearly 100 times more accurate than the best atomic clocks we have now,” says one of the researchers, Scientia Professor Victor Flambaum It would allow scientists to test fundamental physical ...

For millennia, atoms had been phantoms, widely suspected to exist but remaining stubbornly invisible — though not indivisible, as their name (Greek for “uncuttable”) originally implied. By the start ...

“. . . it may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in the former will produce an ...

The Atomic Age’s most iconic symbol is back on Claremont’s College Avenue. A 1958 sculpture of an atomic whirl has returned to the facade of a Pomona College science hall some 18 months after it was ...