Taken by David Nadlinger and titled “Single Atom In An Ion Trap,” the photo at the top of this story is the winner of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s 2018 science ...

and a truly remarkable photo showing a single atom captured in space has been awarded a first place prize in the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s annual photography competition.

"And I think people are also surprised by how big the atom looks here. … I hope I'm not undoing 100 years of science education with this photo — atoms actually are unbelievably small!" ...

08 of an inch. The photograph, entitled "Single Atom in an Ion Trap," won the overall science photography prize put on by the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. "The idea of ...

A university student named David Nadlinger has won the top prize in a science photography contest ... Council after capturing a photo of a single atom. The photo, titled “Single Atom in an ...

It seemed that the atom—already split ... made their find with the most powerful “microscope” known to science. Its “eyepiece” is a 2½-ton magnet, its light source a giant accelerator ...

David Nadlinger, who attends the University of Oxford, won the competition organized by the U.K.'s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). "Single Atom in Ion Trap," by David ...

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Scientists used an atom of the element ytterbium to sense an electromagnetic force smaller than 100 zeptonewtons, researchers report online March 23 in Science Advances. That’s less than 0. ...