Bombarding a material with an ion beam provides valuable information about its surface composition. Ion guns that fire polyatomic ions can reveal more detailed information and cause less damage to the ...
Three’s company: researchers at Harvard University have trapped individual triatomic molecules. (Courtesy: iStock/Emilija Randjelovic) Individual polyatomic molecules have been trapped in arrays of ...
Red light stop: The experiment uses multiple frequencies of light to cool the CaOH atoms to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero. (Courtesy: John Doyle) Physicists in the US have created ...