If, like me, you can't go a day without making sure your watch is synced to the second, you'll be delighted to learn that a ...

The world’s largest atom smasher has conducted its first-ever collisions between protons and oxygen ions, as part of an ambitious campaign to include a series of historic firsts, among which ...

Hollow atoms are special atoms with multiple missing electrons in their inner shells, while their outer shells are still ...

A bivalent atom, such as copper in copper sulphate, carries just twice the smallest, or univalent charge; a trivalent atom three times the smallest charge; and so on for atoms of still higher valency.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has set a new world record for the most accurate aluminum ion-based ...

ASRock ION 330 nettop with NVIDIA ION graphics and a dual core 1.6GHz Atom 330 processor Asus UL20A with a dual core Intel SU7300 Core 2 Duo CULV processor and integrated GMA 4500MHD graphics ...

Ion-trap quantum computer is programmable and reconfigurable The IonQ device has also been used to calculate the binding energies of simple molecules. In principle, quantum computers can do these ...

If the atom becomes ionised however, the number of electrons will change. An ion is an atom that has lost or gained one or more electron.

Ion [ahy -uhn, ahy -on] noun: 1. a charged atom 2. nVidia’s new two-chip product that works with the Intel Atom netbook CPU for affordable, portable performance. I’m going to give you the same ...

The Acer AspireRevo is the first Atom-based PC from a major PC supplier to use Nvidia's Ion graphics.

Five on a line: an ion trap with four segmented blade electrodes used to trap a linear chain of atomic ions for quantum-information processing. Each ion is addressed optically for individual control ...

Using oscillating electromagnetic field in ion traps limits the currently achievable number of qubits in quantum computers. Researchers at ETH have now created an ion trap on a microfabricated chip ...