Blink and you might miss it, but if you keep your eye on the monitors in professor Sebastian Will's lab, you'll catch a series of single-second flashes that light up the screen. Each flash is an atom ...

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

The quantum world has a reputation for being elusive, but physicists are now starting to watch it unfold in real time. For the first time, researchers have directly imaged the restless motion of atoms ...