Atomic

From now on, 4 PTB primary atomic clocks will contribute to UTC.
NewsRx Health & Science; 1/10/2010; 894 words; ...in German. The world's best caesium atomic clocks control Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), an atomic time scale on which the time zones used...to the exclusive club of primary caesium atomic clocks. Now a fourth one, the caesium...

Caltech physicists propose quantum entanglement for motion of microscopic objects.
NewsRx Health & Science; 1/10/2010; 1361 words; ...extremely versatile toolbox for manipulating atoms, and have been employed to demonstrate a variety of quantum phenomena at the atomic level. In the new work, Chang and his colleagues demonstrate theoretically that similar success can be achieved when an individual...

Research on cardiovascular disease reported by scientists at International Atomic Energy Agency.
Heart Disease Weekly; 1/10/2010; 1033 words; ...establish the current state of nuclear cardiology, International Atomic Energy Agency member and non-member states were queried as...programs," wrote J.V. Vitola and colleagues, International Atomic Energy Agency. The researchers concluded: "Development of...

New findings reported from R.C. Binning and co-authors describe advances in biological inorganic chemistry.
Chemicals & Chemistry; 1/8/2010; 572 words; ...effect of Tyr34 is also examined," scientists in the United States report. "The mean absolute deviation from experiment of atomic positions in the best calculated structures is less than 0.3. The experimental structure is reproduced well enough to determine...

Study findings on physical chemistry are outlined in reports from University of Notre Dame.
Chemicals & Chemistry; 1/8/2010; 757 words; ...clad particles (30-40 mu m diameter Al spheres coated by a 3-3.5 mu m layer of Ni, that corresponds to a 1:1 Ni/Al atomic ratio), it was shown that such mechanical treatment leads to a significant decrease in the self-ignition temperature of...