Traditional atomic clocks are enormous ... "Fullerene" refers to its specific structure, resembling a "cage" of carbon atoms with a nitrogen atom enclosed inside. This name is inspired by ...

Red arrows indicate the nuclear spin axes at the positions of the N3 nitrogen atoms on the guanine (G) bases. Due to the helical structure of ... DNA bases and nitrogen atom sites, encoding ...

Researchers use atomic force microscopy to image the chemical structure of the small ... to distinguish a carbon atom from an oxygen or a nitrogen or a sulfur atom, for example.

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers are atomic-scale defects in the lattice structure of diamond. They consist of a substitutional nitrogen atom adjacent to a vacant lattice site. NV centers have emerged as ...