| 单词 | atom |
| 例句 | However, the box the banana is in is made of atoms, too. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The atoms in my body align themselves with the atoms in his. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Sort of like an atom of hope that the Thompson family could change their minds and return home to Florida. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z A proton is an infinitesimal part of an atom, which is itself of course an insubstantial thing. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “I remember the atom. And what does the atom have to say for itself these days?” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The only thing special about the atoms that make you is that they make you. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Three days later the phosphorus atoms were ready, and I quickly strung together several short sections of the sugar-phosphate backbone. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z And I said, “Just so long as it is not naked and with wings, one atom at a time.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z If we did not know better, we might be tempted to take all the atoms that make us up, mix them together in a big container and stir. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But what made this a world- changing discovery was that if atoms really could be split, they would release energy as they broke in two. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though only about fifteen atoms were involved, they kept falling out of the awkward pincers set up to hold them the correct distance from one another. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z A molecule is simply two or more atoms working together in a more or less stable arrangement: add two atoms of hydrogen to one of oxygen and you have a molecule of water. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A few Greeks, however, such as Democritus, held that matter was inherently grainy and that everything was made up of large numbers of various different kinds of atoms. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The atom—the fundamental unit of matter—was actually made of even more fundamental units of matter: electrons, protons, and neutrons. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The attraction between the unlike charges of electrons and protons is what holds the atom together. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As it contracts, the atoms of the gas collide with each other more and more frequently and at greater and greater speeds—the gas heats up. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The strong force binds atoms together; it’s what allows protons to bed down together in the nucleus. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The great volcanic plumes of Io reach so high that they are close to injecting their atoms directly into the space around Jupiter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He doesn’t belong to a species clever enough to split the atom but not clever enough to live in peace with itself. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z When the uranium atoms in the bomb split, some would break down into other radioactive elements—atoms that would continue shooting out particles. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When Maurice asked whether we needed the molds back in Cambridge, we said yes, half implying that more carbon atoms were needed to make models showing how polypeptide chains turned corners. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I thought of atoms, molecules, things so small you couldn’t even see them. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The nucleus of an atom is tiny–only one millionth of a billionth of the full volume of the atom–but fantastically dense, since it contains virtually all the atom’s mass. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z My elbow, which is resting on the table before me, is made of atoms. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After the war the problem of gravitational collapse was largely forgotten as most scientists became caught up in what happens on the scale of the atom and its nucleus. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Above all, atoms are tiny–very tiny indeed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z These indivisible lines and planes are like atoms of area and volume; they can’t be divided any further. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The box’s atoms are wiggling around, and they will bump the banana’s atoms and set them in motion again. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The atoms inside me sparked and jangled nervously as soon as I saw her. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z It burns brightly with radiation, destroying all life and eventually destroying the atoms that make up matter. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “I smile with my atoms on the inside.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z He had taken Benton’s notes and not blown them out of proportion so much as he had strapped an atom bomb to every letter of every word. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z There is actually more empty space between our atoms and molecules than anything solid. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z She was constructing model molecules by connecting colored gumdrops that were supposed to represent atoms, but she got distracted pretending the gumdrops were the Beiderman’s eyes and she was stabbing them with the toothpicks. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Huggins had found organic matter in the comets; in subsequent years cyanogen, CN, consisting of a carbon and a nitrogen atom, the molecular fragment that makes cyanides, was identified in the tails of comets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So far, to our knowledge, King’s had not built any three-dimensional models of the necessary atoms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Nobody, least of all humans themselves, had any inkling that their descendants would one day walk on the moon, split the atom, fathom the genetic code and write history books. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Using Avogadro’s mathematics, chemists were eventually able to work out, for instance, that a typical atom had a diameter of 0.00000008 centimeters, which is very little indeed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I do not believe in ghosts, unless they are just lingering atoms from the dead; atoms that didn’t know how to let go of one another. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z It was enough to blow the Party to atoms, if in some way it could have been published to the world and its significance made known. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But this technology was still not capable of “approaching, much less surpassing, the success of the radioactive elements, in providing us with high-speed electrons and high-speed atoms.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Since the wavelength of light is much larger than the size of an atom, we cannot hope to “look” at the parts of an atom in the ordinary way. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is how my atoms sound when I’m happy,” I answered. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z And now that their purpose was achieved, now the children had found their dæmons, and escaped, the dead warriors allowed their atoms to relax and drift apart, at long, long last. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Thus as soon as I got to the lab I began adding bits of copper wire to some of our carbon-atom models, thereby changing them into the larger-sized phosphorus atoms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z With every atom of my being, I beg this in order that not only may this black boy live, but that we ourselves may not die!” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z An atom with one proton is an atom of hydrogen, one with two protons is helium, with three protons is lithium, and so on up the scale. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When we cut an apple, the knife must pass through empty spaces between the atoms, Democritus argued. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The awesome power of the neutron star is lurking in the nucleus of every atom, hidden in every teacup and dormouse, every breath of air, every apple pie. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By repeating this process many times, they removed the copper atoms from the surface of the metal, creating a veneer of almost pure gold. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We now know that neither the atoms nor the protons and neutrons within them are indivisible. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe they could see my atoms, and I was merely bits of organic code for them to manipulate. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z If you make the ninety-first cut of the apple pie, if you slice a carbon nucleus, you make not a smaller piece of carbon, but something else—an atom with completely different chemical properties. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Such materials, present as contaminants in water that also contains chemicals, may actually change the nature of the chemicals by the impact of ionizing radiation, rearranging their atoms in unpredictable ways to create new chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But the fact remains that when a ‘hit’ is made, the atom gives up about twenty times as much energy as was needed to break it. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Thus the electrons would either escape from the atom altogether or would spiral into the nucleus. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He reminded them that the United States was “up against an extremely difficult world opinion situation” and declared that he did not want the nation to be “crucified on a cross of atoms.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Just one. I don’t really understand it. On the ship they said it had to do with an atom. That’s why it’s called an ‘atomic bomb.’” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z To begin with, for you to be here now trillions of drifting atoms had somehow to assemble in an intricate and intriguingly obliging manner to create you. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Some physicists thought that atoms might be cube shaped, because cubes can be packed together so neatly without any wasted space. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Then World War II intervened and Oppenheimer himself became closely involved in the atom bomb project. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The little things in my father’s novel were called Lazarus Doors because you actually had to die to come through them—one atom at a time. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z In those days the atom had not been split and few of the chemicals that were to duplicate radiation had as yet been conceived in the test tubes of chemists. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Speeding, the atoms of my body hurding away from each other. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z They are the anchors that keep me from knackering my fourteen-billion-year-old atoms back out into the universe where they came from, where they belong. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z It is still a fairly astounding notion to consider that atoms are mostly empty space, and that the solidity we experience all around us is an illusion. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But what we can say is that for the sample as a whole the rate of disappearance will be such that half the atoms will disappear every 30 seconds. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There was also the problem of how protons with their positive charges could bundle together inside the nucleus without blowing themselves and the rest of the atom apart. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It’s a hypothetical molecular-engineering technology in which objects are designed and built with the individual specification and placement of each separate atom. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One day, she showed us a video in which a scientist described what he called “the most astounding fact,” which was that all living things are composed of the atoms of collapsed stars. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The sounds of assault rifles and atom bombs got louder in Frank’s head. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Raising the temperature and keeping the same number of atoms inside should permanently raise the pressure. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Earth itself is a very rich mixture of atoms, mostly silicon,' oxygen, aluminum, magnesium and iron. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z How do they know what goes on inside an atom? A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I caught myself before my fourteen-billion-year-old teenage atoms let my mouth say something horrible—that Tracy wasn’t my real mom, even though she was the only mom I remembered. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z However, on the small scales of atoms and molecules, electromagnetic forces dominate. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He deduced this by analyzing the way in which alpha-particles, which are positively charged particles given off by radioactive atoms, are deflected when they collide with atoms. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In either case, one could not have atoms as we know them. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Feynman explained the basics: how uranium atoms split when hit with neutrons, how they give off energy, how a chain reaction could lead to an explosion. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But within less than one millionth of a sec ond, so many atoms would fission that the lump of uranium would blow itself apart with the force of millions of pounds of regular explosive. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But the fact that you have atoms and that they assemble in such a willing manner is only part of what got you here. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It’s just a bunch of widely spaced atoms moving at greater or lesser speeds. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z If things work out they hope to establish three atomic research and atom bomb depots on Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z When my atoms trickled back together, the first thing I became aware of was this: I have dirt in my mouth. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z This led him to think about the idea of atoms, and to try to find a way to measure their sizes. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z His atoms were probably getting very tired of holding on to one another. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z All its glamor had vanished, and the crudely improvised phosphorus atoms gave no hint that they would ever neatly fit into something of value. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It occurred to him that if a star collapsed to the sort of densities found in the core of atoms, the result would be an unimaginably compacted core. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The two scientists were studying the forces between atoms when they realized that their measurements didn’t match the forces that had been predicted. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z My atoms have been around for fourteen billion years. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z For light elements like lithium and beryllium, the high yield was not particularly surprising, but the same thing happened with heavier atoms like gold and platinum. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They were fading, that was the answer; fading and drifting away like atoms of smoke, for all that they tried to cling to their men. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I hold together pretty well, considering how much my atoms have been through. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Superman relied on his enormous physical strength; Oppenheimer could let loose the energy locked inside atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I repeated in my head, over and over, a command for my atoms to stay here, to not blank out. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z When Julia Bishop said I was an “okay guy,”my atoms began to swirl and vibrate. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z By Rutherford’s reckoning, therefore, the helium atom had two orbital electrons and a nucleus comprising four protons and two electrons; radium had 138 electrons and a nucleus of 226 protons and 88 electrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “The lenses leave behind a harmless film against the eye surface that is only one atom thick. This film acts as a conduit between the lenses and your body.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, most of the mass of an atom is in its nucleus; the electrons are by comparison just clouds of moving fluff. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When you think about it, the universe is nothing but this vast knackery of churning black holes and exploding stars, constantly freeing atoms that collect together and become something else, and something else again. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Neutrinos can on rare occasion convert chlorine atoms into argon atoms, with the same total number of protons and neutrons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Electrons determine the chemical properties of the atom—the glitter of gold, the cold feel of iron, the crystal structure of the carbon diamond. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If we start with a carpet the size of half an atom, we can cover all the rational numbers on the number line with carpets that, in total, take up less room than an atom. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Like sexual confusion and atom bombs, self-taught civil engineers are causally associated with extinction. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z This would be rather difficult, however: the black hole would have the mass of a mountain compressed into less than a million millionth of an inch, the size of the nucleus of an atom! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Even worse, the uncomfortable impression arose that there were no obvious restrictions on the bond angles between several of the most important atoms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z In nuclear physics, it’s the time it takes for unstable atoms to lose energy by emitting radiation. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I was born on the anniversary of the first-ever atom bomb explosion on Planet Earth. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z With 238 protons and neutrons, uranium is the largest atom in nature. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And you’d say, “But at the molecular level, everything is eventually breakable—even an atom.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The remaining neutrons would have decayed into protons, which are the nuclei of ordinary hydrogen atoms. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I realized that if we all had Shakespeare’s atoms inside us, we probably also had atoms from Adolf Hitler, who was probably the worst human who ever lived. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In one hour she had found out that everything was made up of atoms which were in continual motion. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It soon became obvious that this model created more problems than it solved—and the heavier the atom, the greater the problems. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z All living things on our planet are constructed of organic molecules—complex microscopic architectures in which the car- bon atom plays a central role. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Not in the sense of the atoms of my body becoming closer and more dense, but a fusion—as the atoms of my-re^merge into microcosm. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z It lived in the empty spaces in her atoms. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The rate of decline is known precisely; every 5,730 years, half of the C14 atoms in nonliving substances become regular carbon atoms. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When the ship reaches relativistic velocities, the hydrogen atoms will be moving with respect to the spaceship at close to the speed of light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew that some of these tiny particles would hit uranium atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I believe many of those atoms found their way into my corpse-loving rat terrier—possibly into me as well. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Ernest Lawrence’s renown as an experimentalist and the father of the most productive instrument for researching the atom had spread coast to coast. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Stern’s expertise was the action of magnetic fields on atoms and subatomic particles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The fact that atoms are composed of three kinds of elementary particles—protons, neutrons and electrons—is a comparatively recent finding. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I have never understood why men with regular, difficult jobs can sometimes feel an unexplainable dedication to a company, but my atoms have not been together for so many miles. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The word atom, used in the modern sense, first entered scientific vocabulary in John Dalton’s paper in 1808. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z By the time he reached New York City in January 1939, he was convinced—uranium atoms really could split in two. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z So the atom turned out to be quite unlike the image that most people had created. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I could tell it was Cade’s shirt; I could smell his atoms on it. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z There existed no accurate representations of the groups of atoms unique to DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Bohr had recently suggested that the nucleus of an atom might act like a “wobbly droplet” of liquid. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We dragged our sleeping bags out from the tent so we could lie on our backs and watch the atoms being freed in the knackery above us until we fell asleep. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Democritus invented the word atom, Greek for “unable to be cut.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Sticky atoms want to hold on to one another. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I have never been outside the state of California in the nearly seventeen years that my atoms and molecules have been stuck together, walking around and calling themselves Finn. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Will thought he could feel all the atoms of his body responding to her command, and he joined in, urging his leaking blood to listen and obey. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z One couldn’t be sure, but the impression was there that any model placing the sugar-phosphate backbone in the center of a helix forced atoms closer together than the laws of chemistry allowed. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z In the hiss and flare of steam, he felt the atoms finally settle together, and he knew that the knife was as keen as before, the point as infinitely rare. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “I guess I assumed you’d dress up as an atom or an equation or something.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z After a number of strides, Achilles would be taking tiny steps that can’t get any smaller; eventually he would have to hurdle an atom that the tortoise doesn’t. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The a-helix had not been found by only staring at X-ray pictures; the essential trick, instead, was to ask which atoms like to sit next to each other. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I suppose love, which makes atoms sticky, is also in many ways a prison. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z How many cuts before you are down to a single atom? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The electromagnetic attraction between negatively charged electrons and positively charged protons in the nucleus causes the electrons to orbit the nucleus of the atom, just as gravitational attraction causes the earth to orbit the sun. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At the next-heaviest atom, helium, the model began to break down, creating the anomalies that drew from Max Born his expression of despair. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Despite the fear infiltrating every atom of my body, I felt—very briefly—some pity for the ugly god. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Eventually, the star gets so hot and dense that the hydrogen atoms stick to one another and fuse, creating helium and releasing large quantities of energy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Frisch began telling Bohr that uranium atoms could split in two and was halfway through his explanation when Bohr slapped himself on the forehead. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z One atom at a time, One atom at a time. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I tried feeling those atoms, tried to sense if there was anything inside me that might inspire me to burst out with To be, or not to be or Wherefore art thou, but I couldn’t. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z For example, split the atom and you get neutrons and electrons and protons. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z That doesn’t sound like much—but keep in mind how tiny atoms are. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This model explained quite well the structure of the simplest atom, hydrogen, which has only one electron orbiting around the nucleus. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then it’s got nothing to do with atoms,” insisted Heisenberg. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There are ninety-two chemically distinct kinds of naturally occurring atoms. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought made my atoms feel very alive and aroused, not nearly like the fourteen-billion-year-old sourpusses I was used to. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “Even though only about fifteen atoms were involved, they kept falling out of the awkward pincers set up to hold them.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Of course, for these atoms to move, there has to be empty space for them to move into. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Whether or not atoms make life in other corners of the universe, they make plenty else; indeed, they make everything else. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “We have broken the atom secret with our Manhattan Project. We beat the Nazis. Your mission is scrubbed.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They knew that atoms themselves are composed of even smaller particles. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes his trash fires stunk pretty bad, depending on the types of atoms the bullfighter was freeing. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z She removed her sunglasses, and her smile hit me like a thunderbolt, electrifying every atom. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Assuming this represented a single layer of atoms, Halley calculated that a cube of gold with a side one-hundredth of an inch long would contain more than 2.433 million atoms. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z From above came a deep tremor, like a mighty dynamo, almost too low to hear, though it shook the very atoms of the air and jolted the marrow in Will’s bones. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I’d been up for close to three days and had taken so much speed that I could practically see the individual atoms pitching in to make up every folding chair. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Because they are so long lived, atoms really get around. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Everything I knew about nucleic-acid chemistry indicated that phosphate groups never contained bound hydrogen atoms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Ninety cuts and you come to a carbon atom, with six protons and six neutrons in its nucleus and six electrons in the exterior cloud. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “If this thing gets away from us it’s as full of explosives as an atom bomb. What are they planning to do, go over the mountains with choppers?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither the idea of atoms nor the term itself was exactly new. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The reaction would begin—speeding neutrons would hit uranium atoms, which would split, re- leasing energy and more neutrons. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I could not begin to calculate the trillions of atoms separating us, but I had never felt closer to anyone in my life. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “In the second section,” he remembered, “buried away some place, was an announcement that some German chemists had found that the uranium atom split into two pieces.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But if atoms are so small and empty and the nuclei smaller still, why does the table hold me up? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z You can get very close; thanks to laser cooling, physicists can chill atoms to a few millionths of a degree above the ultimate coldness. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z By spending less than a minute with the summary and the introduction, I was soon at the figures showing the locations of the essential atoms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z There had to be atoms of information—discrete, insoluble, indelible particles—moving from parent to child. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They also discovered that radioactive elements decayed into other elements–that one day you had an atom of uranium, say, and the next you had an atom of lead. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z If only I could breathe in Dawn Madden atoms. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z She told me all the local and world news, and it was rather pleasant to hear about the National League, an atom bomb test, and a Mr. Riley’s three-legged dog that chased her chickens. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The resulting balancing act involves a ceaseless clustering of bonded atoms into molecules of higher and higher complexity, and the emergence of cycles for the storage and release of energy. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z While he moved the atoms back and forth, I sat on the top of my desk thinking about the form of the letters that I soon could write, saying that we had found something interesting. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The atoms inside me were busily cranking out all kinds of sticky hormones that day. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Under the impact of ionizing radiation some rearrangement of atoms could easily occur, changing the nature of the chemicals in a way that is not only unpredictable but beyond control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She also said that each of us has at least 20 billion atoms from William Shakespeare inside our body. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The top of the ultraviolet cloud is more than 200 kilometers above the surface of Io and may eject extremely small particles and atoms directly into space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Has he ever actually even seen one of these atoms he studies year after year? Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The grip of the strong force reaches out only to about 1/100,000 of the diameter of an atom. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The only solution to the problem is ingenious: transform a molecule from a solution to a crystal—and its atoms are instantly locked into position. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She also had to make sure she was back in her cell when the bonds of her atoms felt as though they were ready to burst and fly apart. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z First it provided a basis for more accurately measuring the size and weight of atoms. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “We are having a merry time bombarding atoms,” he wrote Boyce. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This does not matter too much, because gravity is such a weak force that its effects can usually be neglected when we are dealing with elementary particles or atoms. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z My elbow does not slither through the table because atoms have electrons around their nuclei and because electrical forces are strong. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But remembering the fiasco of sixteen months before, keeping King’s in the dark made sense until exact coordinates had been obtained for all the atoms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z These produced patterns showing that hydrogen atoms emitted energy at certain wavelengths but not others. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But some hydrogen atoms have one proton and one neutron. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Anaxagoras believed in a special mind substance and disbelieved in the existence of atoms. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The picture that nearly everybody has in mind of an atom is of an electron or two flying around a nucleus, like planets orbiting a sun. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z If that were so, the reign of the cyclotron as sciences most powerful and effective atom smasher might be a brief one. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Ideas ricocheted off ideas, like atoms splitting atoms. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They figured out how many of the neutrons hit uranium atoms and caused fission. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He said he was working more hours at Flat Face Pizza in order to save up for a trip to Germany, where he hoped to scatter as many of his atoms as possible. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The awesome supernova explosion ejects into space most of the matter of the precursor star—a little residual hydrogen and helium and significant amounts of other atoms, carbon and silicon, iron and uranium. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sticky atoms are caused by love, or sometimes by hate or fear. The knackery has a hard time breaking down love and hate into anything else.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z A normal hydrogen atom has a nucleus with just one proton and no neutrons. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z While Einstein and Hubble were productively unraveling the large-scale structure of the cosmos, others were struggling to understand something closer to hand but in its way just as remote: the tiny and ever-mysterious atom. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Urey’s quarry was an atom of mass 2 that by Birge’s reckoning appeared in hydrogen gas at a concentration of 1 for every 4,500 atoms of hydrogen-1. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Neutrons don’t influence an atom’s identity, but they do add to its mass. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In about an hour I had arranged the atoms in positions which satisfied both the X-ray data and the laws of stereochemistry. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The smallest living things known, the viroids, are composed of less than 10,000 atoms. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By comparison, the total number of atoms in your body is about 1028, and the total number of elementary particles—protons and neutrons and electrons—in the observable universe is about 1080. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was their property, heart and soul, body and blood; what they did claimed every atom of him, sleeping and waking; it colored life and dictated the terms of death. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z By the late 1930s, scientists like Hahn understood that everything in the universe is made up of incredibly tiny particles called atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z These clouds were moving as the result of pure chance, the effect of utterly, random events at the level of atoms and molecules; their shadows speeding over the grassland had no meaning at all. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Rutherford’s discovery revolutionized physicists’ model of the atom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Don’t leave me here on this terrible world, I’ve got to get away; there’s going to be an atom war! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Seen this way, the structure resembles a spiral staircase with the base pairs forming the steps. helical symmetry, the locations of the atoms in one nucleotide would automatically generate the other positions. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z They provided precise ionization data, spelled out their theory on how positrons emitted by the bombarded atoms transmuted into gamma rays, and carefully avoided any speculation about the significance of the new phenomenon. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I found myself wondering how many atoms from the same calamities out there in the universe our bodies shared. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Let us pause for a moment and consider the structure of the atom as we know it now. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Eventually two other Cavendish scientists invented a more powerful proton-beam device, while in California Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley produced his famous and impressive cyclotron, or atom smasher, as such devices were long excitingly known. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Fuchs described some of the complex challenges of separating uranium atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyday life depends on the structure of the atom. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I know, we came up here to get away from things— politics, the atom bomb, war, pressure groups, prejudice, laws—I know. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z There seemed to be no way in which atoms and molecules could somehow spontaneously fall together to create organisms of such awesome complexity and subtle functioning as grace every region of the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Ultraviolet light is light with a lot of energy, so scientists naturally concluded that it took quite a bit of energy to kick an electron out of an atom. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I will paint for him not only the visible universe, but all that he can conceive of nature’s immensity in the womb of this abridged atom. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The atoms that disengaged from the dead coyote smelled worse than anything imaginable. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z In the Lucretian universe the gods are indifferent to human beings, and human beings are an accidental consequence of the random jostling together of atoms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He asks questions about atoms and clouds, about fish and mammals, about famous religions and dead presidents. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Water is a molecule made of hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I believe my atoms begin to drift apart—stop holding hands—in those wordless moments too. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The average species on Earth lasts for only about four million years, so if you wish to be around for billions of years, you must be as fickle as the atoms that made you. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z To get down to the scale of atoms, you would need to take each one of those micron slices and shave it into ten thousand finer widths. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The Allies may have used a very powerful bomb, he said, but not a real atomic bomb, not a bomb based on the fission of uranium atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, no knife could be sharp enough, the pie is too crumbly, and the atom would in any case be too small to see unaided. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On the first-ever Carousel Carl episode, Carl went over the life cycle of stars and explained that all things on earth, people included, are made of atoms that came from exploding stars. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Two protons and two neutrons are the nucleus of a helium atom, which turns out to be very stable. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But the chain reaction had been proved—humans now knew they could release the enormous power locked inside atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Bohr’s model corresponded to experimental observation only for the very simplest atom, hydrogen, which had only one proton and one electron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She knew about atoms and elementary particles, and anbaromagnetic charges and the four fundamental forces and other bits and pieces of experimental theology, but nothing about the solar system. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z But in the end all we have is a tedious mixture of atoms. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The outside of an atom in my elbow has a negative electrical charge. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z These circumspect words produced a scientific earthquake, for what Rutherford described was the first artificial splitting of the atom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If there were no such empty spaces, no void, the knife would encounter the impenetrable atoms, and the apple could not be cut. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For Epicurus and Lucretius, what matters about atoms is their size, shape and movement. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z By looking at the collective motion of groups of atoms, physicists could predict the way matter behaves. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Rumors spread like a diaspora of atoms in the knackery of the universe, always getting rendered into something else and something else. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z If this is all that atoms have, then the qualities that we perceive in the world—colour, taste, smell, sound, texture, temperature—must be by-products of size, shape and movement. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Equally, if a real photon collides with an atom, it may move an electron from an orbit nearer the nucleus to one farther away. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A star is a kind of cosmic kitchen inside which atoms of hydrogen are cooked into heavier atoms. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The normal, predictable state of matter throughout the universe is randomness, a relaxed sort of equilibrium, with atoms and their particles scattered around in an amorphous muddle. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Traveling a bit more slowly, they’d be more likely to hit the uranium atoms and cause fission. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked to school without incident, though Moss would have been hard-pressed to have noticed the detonation of an atom bomb that morning. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The nucleus of a uranium atom usually has a total of 238 protons and neutrons. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z His atoms decided they could not bear holding on to one another as long as Cade Hernandez’s atoms were determined to do likewise. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “I just don’t think dropping the atom bomb qualifies. It was war, after all,” Jonah says, pushing his long hair away from his eyes. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z “I was brought up to look at the atom as a nice hard fellow, red or grey in color, according to taste,” he remarked years later of the plum pudding model. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He believed that the prevailing religions of his time were evil and that neither immortal souls nor immortal gods exist: “Nothing exists, but atoms and the void.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither phosphorus atoms nor the purine and pyrimidine bases were on hand. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The terrifying thought that Adolf Hitler might beat the Allies to exploitation of the atom’s destructive capacity had prompted many eminent scientists, including numerous refugees from Nazi Germany, to participate willingly in the Manhattan Project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The atoms of the unwelcome visitors were freed. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z In a world of atoms and the void all natural processes result from the ways in which atoms jostle together. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Thomson, Ernest Rutherford’s mentor, discovered the electron in 1897, thereby establishing that atoms were divisible into even smaller particles—“corpuscles,” he called them. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I can feel the pull of the earth on me, the dragging of its dark curve of gravity, the spaces between the atoms you could fall so easily through. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z What if you were able to get all those atoms to split and release energy at the same moment? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He avoids the term ‘atoms’ because the ancient atomists had insisted that atoms were not divisible and that the space between them was empty. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The atomists, for example, believed that the universe is made up of little particles called atoms, which are indivisible and eternal. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The atom as a whole carried a neutral charge: the negative charges of its orbital electrons balanced the positive charge of the nucleus, the latter created by an excess of protons over electrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As the light leaves these stars, certain frequencies or colors are absorbed by the atoms in the stars’ outermost layers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At Cambridge University in England, in the forty-five years centered on 1910, the nature of the atom was first understood— partly by shooting pieces of atoms at atoms and watching how they bounce off. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When these heavier hydrogen atoms join with oxygen to form water, the result is heavy water—it’s about 10 percent heavier than regular water. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a feeling there was a simmering stew of atoms inside Cade Hernandez’s digestive tract that needed to be freed. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Mom had been my nurse, after all, and was more intimately familiar with all my most embarrassing atoms than anyone on the planet of humans and dogs. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Thomson, had demonstrated the existence of a particle of matter, called the electron, that had a mass less than one thousandth of that of the lightest atom. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Why atoms take this trouble is a bit of a puzzle. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He was one of the first to see–possibly the very first–that the power inherent in the atom could, if harnessed, make bombs powerful enough to "make this old world vanish in smoke." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Ozone is a form of oxygen in which each molecule bears three atoms of oxygen instead of two. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They are composed of about fifty million atoms. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Ernest Rutherford depicted the atom as a miniature solar system, with negatively charged electrons surrounding a tiny yet massive nucleus consisting of positively charged protons and negatively charged electrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Thus the next several days were to be spent using a plumb line and a measuring stick to obtain the relative positions of all atoms in a single nucleotide. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z As these contracted, and the atoms within them collided with one another, the temperature of the gas would increase, until eventually it became hot enough to start nuclear fusion reactions. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The atom, the byte, and the gene provide fundamentally new scientific and technological understandings of their respective systems. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They knew they could bombard a uranium atom with neutrons and cause its nucleus to split. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Essentially they were those who had not adapted themselves to what had once been called the Atomic Age, in the days when atoms were a novelty. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z But in deep space there is only about one atom in every ten cubic centimeters, a volume the size of a grape. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Two hundred thousand civilians killed by atom bombs,” said Julia, “and two million more incinerated by firebombs is hardly what I would call 'Scot-free.'” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The molecules, in turn, are made of atoms—carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and a few others. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It isn’t that every atom in the sample will exist for exactly 30 seconds or 60 seconds or 90 seconds or some other tidily ordained period. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z You could almost feel all the sticky atoms. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z They seemed to be going haywire, colliding with one another like excited atoms. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z If you cut an atom, you transmute the elements. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Scientists also knew that some atoms are radioactive. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, once the temperature had dropped to a few thousand degrees, and electrons and nuclei no longer had enough energy to overcome the electromagnetic attraction between them, they would have started combining to form atoms. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The series of contiguous physical events has rendered the child’s body so different from the one I glance down on at this moment; the very atoms that composed her body no longer compose mine. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Just about every individual atom in the universe, every last bit of the stuff that builds me, is nearly fourteen billion years old. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z By this point physicists could be excused for thinking that they had just about conquered the atom. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z By seemingly slight changes the whole character of the substance is changed; for example, not only what is attached but the place of attachment to the carbon atom is highly important. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We crept like an atom cloud shot by lasers—or barely at a snail’s pace—as several folks slowed us down to say their hellos. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z To get rid of all of the energy in the banana, you’ve got to stop its atoms from moving around; you have to put it in a box and cool it down. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But the essence of life is not so much the atoms and simple molecules that make us up as the way in which they are put together. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The lenses leave behind a harmless film on the eye’s surface that is only one atom thick. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z By all the laws of conventional physics, atoms shouldn’t therefore exist. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When U-238 atoms are hit with flying neutrons, they absorb the neutrons. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Theoretical physicists were the explorers of their day, using imagination and mind-bending math to dig deeper and deeper into the surprising inner workings of atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing exists,” he said, “but atoms and the void.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of those atoms—when set free in 1945 into the atmosphere above the New Mexico desert—found their way into me: my hands, my head, and my heart. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I might as well have just been born, or just wormed through a Lazarus Door—one atom at a time. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Dalton’s contribution was to consider the relative sizes and characters of these atoms and how they fit together. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z If you show this devious little liar one atom’s worth of compassion I will have you shot. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Lawrence had invented a superb instrument for smashing atoms, but while he was preoccupied with making the tool better, the quintessential small-science lab had stolen the prize from under his nose. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I’m going to break up atoms!” came the reply. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The impact of a four-ton pickup truck going sixty miles an hour plowing straight into the passenger side had the force of an atom bomb. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Deep inside the atom, hidden far beneath the electron cloud, is the nucleus, generally composed of positively charged protons and electrically neutral neutrons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When we die our atoms will disassemble and move off to find new uses elsewhere–as part of a leaf or other human being or drop of dew. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z That's one of those places where they smash atoms and then take pictures of the bits. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The "shell" of an atom isn’t some hard shiny casing, as illustrations sometimes encourage us to suppose, but simply the outermost of these fuzzy electron clouds. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Looking at all this, we know we’re not so hot; we’re kids in rompers, shouting with our play rockets and atoms, loud and alive. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yep, we need a bomb shelter. The Russian Commies say they are planning to bury us, but I’ve got news for them—we are going to survive whatever atom bomb attack they throw our way.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The volcanoes are the probable source of the great doughnutshaped ring of atoms that surrounds Jupiter in the position of Io’s orbit. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We can cover the rationals with carpets that, summed together, fit in the size of half an atom—or a neutron—or a quark—or as small as we can possibly imagine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z On a smaller scale, the electrical forces that cause the electrons to orbit round the nucleus in an atom would behave in the same way as gravitational forces. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The big question was: What happens when a speeding neutron crashes into a uranium atom? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As these uranium atoms split, they would release more neutrons, which would hit more uranium atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Then all the words empty out of my head, and everything is just there: a chaotic jumble of patternless, nameless clusters of atoms. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The great Caltech physicist Richard Feynman once observed that if you had to reduce scientific history to one important statement it would be "All things are made of atoms." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In a rose garden, a rose is a rose because of geraniol, a 10-carbon compound, and it is the geometric conformation of atoms and their bond angles that determine the unique fragrance. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Heisenberg, when asked how one could envision an atom, replied: "Don’t try." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The number of protons is what gives an atom its chemical identity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “That’s okay. Potassium nitrate has much the same property and exactly the same number of oxygen atoms as potassium chlorate. Mix saltpeter and sugar and we should get the same reaction we just saw.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was Rutherford who had assigned Cockcroft the task of splitting the atom and personally paired him with Walton. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The chemistry of an atom depends only on the number of electrons, which equals the number of protons, and which is called the atomic number. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That every atom in us originally came from a shining light at the heart of the solar system. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The face was like a ghost—sticky atoms refusing to give way and cooperate with the will of the knackery. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z An atom, Rutherford realized, was mostly empty space, with a very dense nucleus at the center. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The second provided proof that atoms do indeed exist–a fact that had, surprisingly, been in some dispute. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He also firmly defended the idea that atoms moved about in a void and that there was literally nothing in the gaps between atoms. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The basic element, carbon, is one whose atoms have an almost infinite capacity for uniting with each other in chains and rings and various other configurations, and for becoming linked with atoms of other substances. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “If there was ever a place more prone than a prison to having sticky atoms hanging around, I wouldn’t know what it would be,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Everything, he said, is a collection of atoms, intricately assembled. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The ejected matter would still be in orbit about Jupiter, as Io is, and supply the great tube of atoms which surround Jupiter at Io’s distance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Since each atom is electrically neutral, the number of protons in the nucleus must exactly equal the number of electrons in the electron cloud. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When we consider cutting an apple pie, continuing down beyond a single atom, we confront an infinity of the very small. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For all their devoted attention, your atoms don’t actually care about you–indeed, don’t even know that you are there. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Because atoms are indivisible, there is a point Beyond which things could not be divided. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “He and his brother worked on a top secret project to make the atom bomb during World War II.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z It is of course the abundance and extreme durability of atoms that makes them so useful, and the tininess that makes them so hard to detect and understand. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Having been immersed in the development of the atom’s destructive potential, they were hoping to shift as a team into work on the generation of electricity and other such peacetime aspects of the embryonic science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z My atoms were all riled up, and especially sticky that day. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Second: The existence of certain varieties of heavy atoms on the Earth suggests that there was a nearby supernova explosion shortly before the solar system was formed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1913, while puzzling over the structure of the atom, Bohr had an idea so exciting that he postponed his honeymoon to write what became a landmark paper. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He knows no more than they do about total reality—less, if anything: works with the same old clutter of atoms, the givens of his time and place and tongue. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The telescope and the microscope do exactly the same thing: they turn atoms into mountains, and, if you look through the other end, mountains into atoms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But it was not clear how one ought to extend it to more complicated atoms. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z These wiggling atoms bump into one another, getting their neighbors to wiggle as well. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z All our speculations about whether divalent ions held the chains together would have made no sense if there were hydrogen atoms firmly bound to the phosphates. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z After traveling nearly eleven billion miles in my lifetime, my atoms and I had arrived at a place where we could confidently make such determinations about love. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Their two names would remain entwined for the rest of Lawrence’s life, with more atom smashers— and many more achievements—still to come. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z However, if you wanted to see the atoms in the same drop, you would have to make the drop fifteen miles across. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z As a cloud of gas collapses, it gets hotter and denser, and hydrogen atoms slam into one another with increasing force. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Potassium nitrate. KNO3. The same as potassium chlorate except it has a nitrogen atom instead of a chlorine one.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Thomson proposed a structural model for the atom in which his negatively charged electrons were suspended within an undifferentiated positively charged mass, like bits of fruit within a soft custard. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z That’s why the nuclei of atoms are so compacted and dense and why elements with big, crowded nuclei tend to be so unstable: the strong force just can’t hold on to all the protons. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Otto Hahn, the chemist, was breaking apart atoms to understand their constituent subatomic particles. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Each splitting atom would release a small amount of energy. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The fear was that if the bomb failed, government support for all other work in the field would cease, and research into the atom’s benefits to society would go fallow. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z First: The very matter of which we are composed, the atoms that make life possible, were generated long ago and far away in giant red stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This would mean that the atom, and indeed all matter, should rapidly collapse to a state of very high density. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor would these, together with electrons, form separate, well-defined atoms. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z "Not them. Didn't you hear what the pilot said? About the atom bomb? They're all dead." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Eventually, the gas will be so hot that when the hydrogen atoms collide they no longer bounce off each other, but instead coalesce to form helium. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the revised form the phosphate atoms were twisted 45 degrees, thereby allowing a different group of oxygen atoms to form a hydrogen bond. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Anyway, we’ll probably blow ourselves sky-high before the end of the century, given the atom bomb and the way things are going. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z That soured his first meeting with Oppenheimer, who was invited to the Oval Office on October 25, 1945, to discuss legislation for domestic control of the atom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Every atom is made from three kinds of elementary particles: protons, which have a positive electrical charge; electrons, which have a negative electrical charge; and neutrons, which have no charge. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He was a tall, fierce man and would drive his bowl down the other end of the green so fast that when it connected with another ball it sounded like it was splitting an atom. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z To indicate the number of atoms in a molecule, Berzelius employed a superscript notation, as in H2O. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “You don’t approach people like that and say, ‘Say, can you get me information on the atom bomb?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon, when several atoms had been pushed in or out, the three-chain model began to look quite reasonable. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The atom provides an organizing principle for modern physics—and it tantalizes us with the prospect of controlling matter and energy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “No. I’m pretty sure my atoms will just be scattered out there like everyone else’s.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Suppose, for example, someone had gone back and given the Nazis the secret of the atom bomb? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z However, their indirect effects, such as small changes in the energy of electron orbits in atoms, can be measured and agree with the theoretical predictions to a remarkable degree of accuracy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Positioning one atom the proper distance from its neighbor often caused a distant atom to become jammed impossibly close to its partners. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Each such line is made by a particular kind of molecule or atom. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps the most important thing was the full design of the atom bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And still the robot’s hands formed the stirrup, nor did he betray the slightest atom of surprise at the grotesque figure into which Powell had been converted. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “Smaller than the smallest atom, greater than the vast spaces.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Each molecule of hydrazine has four hydrogen atoms in it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z That is, the invisible corpuscles or atoms which, for a Cartesian, constitute light. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Would you like to consume atoms?” he says. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Even with my pillow pressed over my face, I could smell the booze on him, the atoms from what he’d been getting drunk on wheezing out into the universe with each breath Cade Hernandez exhaled. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z If you could feel every atom in your body simultaneously release its grip on its neighbors, expand outward so that each particle becomes a new center in the universe, it would feel exactly like this. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z For a few weeks, I preoccupied myself with gravity and momentum, atoms and cells, the Anglo-Afghan wars, instead of thinking about Hassan and what had happened to him. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The story of atoms, molecules and their interactions is called chemistry. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z What staggered Hahn was that the force of the collision seemed to be causing the uranium atoms to split in two. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It might be so bad that every one of our atoms would be torn apart during the apocalypse. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Will sensed it all and felt the atoms of the metal linking each to each across the fracture, forming new crystals again, strengthening and straightening themselves in the invisible lattice as the join came good. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z My atoms were packed so tightly together, I had no energy to move. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z As Democritus put it, ‘By convention sweet, by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention colour: but in reality atoms and void.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If that were true, they asked each other, what would happen if a speeding neutron hit the nucleus of a uranium atom? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As mentioned above, they are built on a basis of carbon atoms, which are also the indispensable building blocks of the living world, and thus classed as “organic.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In being man-made — by ingenious laboratory manipulation of the molecules, substituting atoms, altering their arrangement — they differ sharply from the simpler insecticides of prewar days. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z To explain what kept atoms together, other forces were needed, and in the 1930s two were discovered: the strong nuclear force and weak nuclear force. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They agreed: this must be what happened to the uranium atoms in Hahn’s lab. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The fourth category is the strong nuclear force, which holds the quarks together in the proton and neutron, and holds the protons and neutrons together in the nucleus of an atom. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There were no atoms and no universe for them to float about in. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Alvarez told Oppenheimer that uranium atoms split in two—scientists were calling it fission. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If it was like his, the pain she was feeling was so deep that it seemed to inhabit every atom of her. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Like all the scientists involved in the discovery, Oppenheimer was fired up by new ideas in physics, deeper glimpses into the weird inner world of atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z After a seizure, I usually need to sleep for twelve hours or so, just to give my atoms a chance to settle in and hold hands again like good neighbors. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z On such a scale an individual atom is essentially impossible to imagine, but we can of course try. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z All of these atoms are wiggling about in space; the higher the temperature, the faster the atoms wiggle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z By this time there were already suspicions that these atoms were not, after all, indivisible. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But a small percentage of uranium atoms—about 1 out of every 130—have a total of 235 protons and neutrons. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z About 300,000 years after their appearance, matter and energy started to coalesce into complex structures, called atoms, which then combined into molecules. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This hint, this whiff, of the existence of atoms was carried much further by a man named Democritus, who came from the Ionian colony of Abdera in northern Greece. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe they were just the shadows of my own scattered atoms. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Now, the moment Nishina walked into Kawabe’s office, the general demanded, “Could you build an atom bomb in six months? In favorable circumstances we might be able to hold out that long.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The atoms that built the highway of nerves in my arms were still disconnected from my brain, so I could not even move my hands to cover myself. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Pure carbon, each atom linked to four equidistant neighbors, perfectly knit, tetrahedral, unsurpassed in hardness. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He gave Poulsson the basic chemistry: a molecule of water is made up of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The bad news is that atoms are fickle and their time of devotion is fleeting–fleeting indeed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I was neither physically nor mentally prepared to deal with bathing the wretched odor of dead coyote atoms from Laika’s oily fur so early in the teenage day. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The diagram of the atom has a nucleus, with electrons circling it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Eventually alpha rays were identified as helium atoms stripped of their electrons—that is, helium nuclei-—and beta rays as energetic electrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Yet even those tiny carpets, all of which can fit in the span of an atom, cover all of the rational numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Jackson introduced them by alluding to their goal of making atom bombs cleaner, reporting “the gleam in the scientists’ eye of making them almost like Ivory Soap”—then adding wryly: “but not quite.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Without the hydrogen atoms, the chains would immediately fly apart and the structure vanish. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Fermi used graphite to slow down the speed- ing neutrons—he knew that neutrons would bounce off the carbon atoms that make up graphite and lose speed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Rage blazed up in him often, but its atoms were too active for preservation and its life span was brief like the kick and the flame of an afterburner in his father’s F-8. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Tizard’s formation of a committee to study the theory under the leadership of G. P. Thomson, son of the legendary J. J. Thomson, marked the start of organized atom bomb research in Britain. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z These atoms would also split, releasing still more neutrons, which would hit more uranium atoms, causing more fission, more free-flying neutrons, more fission, more neutrons, and so on. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She refuses to understand mass, she refuses to understand why atom bombs blow up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Three profoundly destabilizing scientific ideas ricochet through the twentieth century, trisecting it into three unequal parts: the atom, the byte, the gene. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But although he speculated that the atom was mostly empty space rather than a homogenous mass speckled with charged nuggets, he had not yet conceived an alternative model. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Since our machinist needed at least three days merely to turn out the more simple phosphorus atoms, I went back to Clare after lunch to hammer out the final draft of my genetics manuscript. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Quantum mechanics rules the domain of the very, very small: atoms and electrons and subatomic particles. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Physicists were just beginning to figure out what atoms look like, and how the tiny particles in- side them move and affect each other. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Our observations of atoms and galaxies were launched in this time and place. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “If everything is made up of atoms, what are atoms made of?” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Every atom of air fled from my lungs. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z It has some of the greatest Nobel Prize winners of this last century, nuclear physicists that almost cracked the atom—but kids around here don’t even know it’s there. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I realized that the phosphate groups in Linus’ model were not ionized, but that each group contained a bound hydrogen atom and so had no net charge. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z A typical atom has a kind of cloud of electrons on the outside. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And when that modest milestone flashes past, or at some other point thereabouts, for reasons unknown your atoms will shut you down, silently disassemble, and go off to be other things. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They knew Cade could keep an eye on their epileptic boy, but I thought it was all part of the master plan to ensure Finn Easton’s atoms would never escape the state of California. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z As expected, some of the speeding neutrons hit uranium atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only did we lack the purine and pyrimidine components, but we had never had the shop put together any phosphorus atoms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z But words were the atoms in my father’s universe, and he was their destroyer and their creator. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z "Think of the atom, Mrs. Olinski. There are energies within that tiny realm that are invisible but produce visible results." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The speeding neutrons would collide with other uranium atoms, causing them to fission also. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z My atoms have been on this Finn trip for almost eleven billion miles. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z After all, these little atoms had to move around somehow; if there were no such thing as a vacuum, the atoms would be constantly pressed against one another. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This fine scale of roughness Democritus identified with the world of the atoms. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody actually knows how long an atom can survive, but according to Martin Rees it is probably about 1035 years–a number so big that even I am happy to express it in notation. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In 1980, mathematicians discovered the largest symmetry: the most convoluted symmetrical atom of them all. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z Their discovery was a very thin form of carbon, a single atom thick, which is apparently 100 times stronger than steel and conducts electricity better than copper. Art and science collide to reopen Whitworth gallery 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The atom bomb didn’t just end the war, it forever changed the peace. ‘Manh(a)ttan,’ Atomic Bomb Drama, on WGN 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z A language is basically three things — a sound system or a phenology, a series of atoms. Does Klingon belong to everyone? “It’s a language — the whole point is to use it!” 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z One sage who helped build the first atom bomb put it pungently: “When has man, bloody down to his soul, invented a new weapon and foresworn using it?” How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z Baker, in office with Bush at the time, says the world fundamentally changed after 40 years of living with the reminder “civilization might perish in a fiery hail of atoms.” Famed German orchestra to start US tour in Houston 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z In turn, those cells are made up of atoms, the building blocks of matter. What are gravitational waves? Ripples across the universe. 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Also in the atom are the strong and weak nuclear forces. Listen up, Marco Rubio!: Science lessons for the tea party 2012-11-25T19:00:00Z Trained as a chemist, he worked during World War II on a government project that was producing plutonium for atom bombs. Art Review: Robert Duncan and Jess, and Their Wonderland of Art 2014-01-16T22:59:26Z Yet those magnificent, mighty brains that allow us to split the atom and touch the moon are the same stupid brains that can’t start an assignment until the day before it’s due. How Do I Get Over My Bad Habit of Procrastinating 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z The threatening atom bomb casts a baleful shadow over the serious young people who inhabit “Guns of the Trees,” the first feature made by the hugely influential filmmaker and activist Jonas Mekas. Jonas Mekas’s Debut Is an Artifact of Beat-Era New York 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The metal protests violently as it cools, resulting in forms that look like an Abstract Expressionist atom bomb but also like a species of underwater fern. Matthew Barney’s Most Punishing Tour: ‘River of Fundament’ 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z And why devote so much space to past threats — proposed atom bomb tests, hunting species to near extinction — and so little to how climate change threatens Native American communities right now? Review: Warming Up to the Frozen North in ‘Alaxsxa / Alaska’ 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Jay Rayner, TV presenter and the Observer's food critic Twenty years ago, Don Eigler, a scientist working for IBM in California, wrote out the logo of his employer in letters made of individual atoms. 20 predictions for the next 25 years 2011-01-02T00:05:22Z The mathematician John von Neumann was an undeniable genius whose many accomplishments included an essential role in the development of quantum mechanics, computing and the atom bomb. ‘The Man From the Future’ Recounts the Life of a Restless Genius 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Moving through deep time, he takes the reader into the microscopic realm of minerals and microfossils before venturing into a far future in which the pebble's atoms are reabsorbed into a new star system. The Planet in a Pebble by Jan Zalasiewicz – review 2012-06-12T11:30:03Z For it has been a conceit of some historians to make a connection between seemingly unconnected phenomena, like the consumption of tea and the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan. The Sun Never Set on the British Empire, or Its Food 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z ‘Even the atoms of dust flying around him and settling on his shoes were as dear as gold.’ New & Noteworthy 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z He charted the atom’s constituent parts, discovered that elemental decay was the cause of radiation, and became the first true alchemist in the history of science when he forced platinum to change into gold. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z But at its core, it was very simple: any continuous magnitude, it stated, whether a line, a surface, or a length of time, was composed of distinct infinitely small atoms. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z He replies, “Well I learned to split the atom with chopsticks, and I patented that idea, because chopsticks are in abundance and there are atoms everywhere. I solved all the world’s problems.” Cultural Clicks: Madeline Kahn, Kimmy Schmidt and More 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z In his renowned television series The Ascent of Man, the polymath Jacob Bronowski called the discovery of the invisible world within the atom the great collective achievement of science in the 20th century. Want to imagine what the Higgs boson might look like? Embrace modern art 2011-07-27T15:31:36Z Explosions, skulls, flying pyramids, atoms, and airplanes—none of these are regularly associated with Keith Haring’s eye-popping street art, but they appear in five monumental paintings he completed between 1984 and 1985. An Exhibition at Skarstedt Chelsea Reveals Keith Haring’s Dark Side 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The White House told “The Daily Show” that the logo was actually based on the Rutherford-Bohr model of the atom. Jon Stewart of ?The Daily Show? Takes On Fox News 2010-04-23T22:21:00Z But the nucleus, or center, of an atom is about 10,000 times as big as the ripple of the gravitational wave. What are gravitational waves? Ripples across the universe. 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Then came revolution, economic crisis, totalitarianism, more war, the atom bomb. Stravinsky and the modernism that still stirs 2013-01-03T07:30:01Z The fact that each of these planetlike orange circles is itself made up of tiny orange circles makes clear that the music of the spheres is also the music of atoms, and vice versa. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in August 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z The shape of the crew’s patch represents the international atomic symbol, showing an atom with particles called electrons circling the nucleus. NASA crews show their creativity in long history of mission patches 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z He told me that the inside of an atom was red. Modern Love: A Brother, Lost and Found: Modern Love 2011-09-16T19:37:05Z It set off an atom bomb, and it’s completely changing the face of comics. Scott McCloud: Girls Are Taking the Comic Book World By Storm 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z You might as well cut away from an atom bomb exploding before the mushroom cloud takes shape! Dear "Treme": Why are you in such a hurry? 2011-06-27T15:01:00Z It is the measure of his creative radicalism that he welcomes these desperate dystopias with every atom of his being. The Drowned World by JG Ballard 2012-07-13T07:00:07Z Galaxies and atoms, eclipses and volcanoes, deserts and dinosaurs are paraded before our hopefully wondering eyes. The Tree of Life is a colossal commercial 2011-07-11T10:18:14Z Every time a new star is born, a chain of events is set in place, catapulting hydrogen and oxygen atoms on an interstellar journey of billions of miles that ends up in my bath. Wonders of Life by Brian Cox – digested read 2013-02-03T19:30:01Z He had worked for a year on a screenplay about Los Alamos, so he said the power of atom bombs was on his mind. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Ingredients for the birthday cake include not just the usual pantry staples but “stardust, the machinery of the cosmos” and “atoms left over from creation.” ‘Birthday Candles’ Review: Another Year, Another Cake, Another Profundity 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Seeking escape from darkness, they saw only more to come: the atom bomb, Communist Russian aggression. Should I be ashamed of my grandfather? 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z They symbolize the threat of uniformity, dullness and predictability, the clean and responsible approach to life, and to movies, that “The World’s End” protests with every atom of its being. Movie Review: ‘World’s End’ Continues ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and ‘Hot Fuzz’ 2013-08-22T21:06:38Z Before that, the atom served as an increasingly useful hypothetical construct. What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Kensuke is telling the story of how his family were killed in Nagasaki when the atom bomb fell. War Horse: adapt and survive 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z “A scientist can’t throw up his hands and say, ‘I’m just splitting the atom here, and I don’t have any idea what the military might use it for.’” Polar bears just might outlive us all 2012-12-30T16:00:00Z And then there was the hilarious channeling of a naval trainee mocking another for believing in atoms. Shared camaraderie in ‘We Know How You Die!’ 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z After the end of the Second World War, particle physicists continued to accelerate atoms and then particles in increasingly more powerful particle accelerators. Listen up, Marco Rubio!: Science lessons for the tea party 2012-11-25T19:00:00Z We need to be more wary of them splitting atoms. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z To explain the behaviour of those chemicals meant understanding why atoms worked the way they did. Steven Weinberg: 'I wanted to be on the in – privy to all the secrets of physics' 2013-03-03T00:05:05Z Antioxidants neutralize these atoms, which in turn slows the aging process, according to Harvard Medical School. Eating pumpkin may help you look younger and lose weight, experts say 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Another popular shade, Pigment Green 36, includes potentially hazardous bromide atoms as well as chlorine; while inorganic Pigment Green 50 is a noxious cocktail of cobalt, titanium, nickel and zinc oxide. Design: The Toxic Side of Being, Literally, Green 2010-04-04T16:05:00Z But with continual strange events and an increasing awareness of a presence, the evidence was soon overwhelming: Death was something more than decompiled atoms en route to cosmic reabsorption. Love, sex and death: What my fiancé’s death taught me about the afterlife 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Surely some of the atoms in our bodies were created by us sometime in the last 100 years ago in one of the many nuclear expolsions or nuclear reactors? Brian Cox digested: A summary of Thursday's live Q&A session 2011-03-25T17:58:00Z Christopher Nolan’s next film, about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the atom bomb, will be released by Universal Pictures. Nolan sets next film with Universal, spurning Warner Bros. 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z “The new things are about micro and macro: from the smallest atom to the universe,” said Bob Monk, a Gagosian director who has known Mr. Ruscha for decades and was at the London opening. Ed Ruscha Continues His Wordplay 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z I spent the night in Alamogordo, at an appropriately midcentury motel called the Classic Desert Aire, where T-shirts emblazoned with the atom and “New Mexico It’s A Blast” sell for $25 in the lobby. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z But the fact that fizzing colour is caused by fizzing atoms in no way detracts from the Matissean pleasure it gives. Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour 2011-03-16T17:49:51Z Participants record messages into microphones and hear those left by others through headphones attached to his installation, hundreds of microphones bound together in the shape of an atom. Saudi artists test limits of expression in rare show 2012-01-25T10:33:24Z Inside our bodies at every moment, our cells are orchestrating a complex dance of atoms and molecules that uses energy to create, distribute and deploy the substances on which our lives depend. Ever wonder how your body turns food into fuel? We tracked atoms to find out 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z The full detail of the atomic structure of myoglobin, depicted below with sticks representing the bonds between atoms, is almost too much to comprehend — numbing in its complexity. Myoglobin: turd of the century? 2013-04-19T06:29:00Z That speech, where the singer refers to Thatcher as "a terror without an atom of humanity", was taken unattributed from a 2012 interview with Loaded magazine. Morrissey: still not Margaret Thatcher's biggest fan 2013-04-10T11:48:24Z Less than a decade earlier, Rutherford reported the first splitting of the atom, which he achieved with a handmade apparatus that fit neatly in his lap. The man who invented 'Big Science,' Ernest Lawrence 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The Swan will also host Dekker's festive comedy The Shoemaker's holiday, and the world premiere of Tom Morton-Smith's new play Oppenheimer about "the father of the atom bomb", J Robert Oppenheimer. RSC double bill to commemorate WWI 2014-02-04T14:02:23Z Meanwhile, he always returns to us frail human beings — we who struggle to understand not only the external world of atoms and galaxies but also the internal world of our hearts and our minds. Benedict Cumberbatch Meets Albert Einstein in Carlo Rovelli’s New Audiobook 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Four days later, the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, spelling the end of the war and . America’s original California girl 2012-08-06T20:33:00Z Subsequent McNaughtons include paintings of Obama burning the Constitution, cheerily golfing as an atom bomb goes off behind him, and otherwise misbehaving. Year of “The Forgotten Man” 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z Two Russian-born scientists won the physics prize and the chemistry award went to two Japanese and one American researcher who designed techniques to bind together carbon atoms. Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize 2010-10-07T12:44:00Z His own work is often characterized by an iconoclastic wit, imbued with serious metaphysical inquiry — a “curiosity about the nature of reality, in a much more profound sense than just a bunch of atoms.” Duane Michals Searches the Morgan and Finds Himself 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z There's a manufactured crisis and a treacly resolution that brings all the characters smashing together like atoms in a supercollider. "Hall Pass": Suburban dads gone wild! 2011-02-24T23:01:00Z The conga player, when his time finally came, let loose such an avalanche of rhythm the atoms in the room began to quiver and split. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z When a glass smashes, it is because the force is so great that a chain reaction occurs within the material, with the failure of each atom causing the failure of its neighbour. Mark Miodownik: an obsession with materials 2013-05-24T15:53:00Z Playfully apocalyptic, they move in the manner of lethargic atoms. What to see in L.A. galleries: street-art ethos, a mesmerizing digital canvas, wild tapestries 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z She spoke against the draft in Congress shortly after the beginning of World War II, and in her lectures and articles, she condemned the use of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Was Dorothy Day a Saint or a Subversive? 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z As to the question of why matter is actually made of atoms, the answer also lies in the big bang. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Mr Hidalgo jumps quickly from atoms and cells to economies and societies, leaving the steps in between largely unexplained. Multiplier effects 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z It is caused by the collision of charged energy particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere. Aurora borealis makes rare local appearance 2011-10-25T11:23:00Z Our new method goes even further, by measuring isotopes in a particular carbon atom on each amino acid. Ever wonder how your body turns food into fuel? We tracked atoms to find out 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z You can't say all we are is a bunch of atoms. Holy-wood: the film industry's new passion for Christ 2012-08-24T16:46:55Z We used a chemical called ninhydrin to chop off and isolate the carbon atom we wanted from each amino acid. Ever wonder how your body turns food into fuel? We tracked atoms to find out 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Vannevar Bush was the dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a co-founder of Raytheon, and oversaw the government science programs that resulted in the atom bomb and electronic computer. In This Space Race, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk Are Competing to Take You There 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z It muffles the “bad Niki,” slayer of good Parisian taste, who wanted art to be “as beautiful as seeing someone killed, or the atom bomb.” Niki de Saint Phalle: Nothing More Shocking Than Joy 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Most eminent physicists during the 1920s agreed that accounting for the spectral lines emitted by an atom was a pressing problem deserving inquiry. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z It keeps the electrons in their orbits in the atom, and, as light, brings us daily news that the sun is still shining. Listen up, Marco Rubio!: Science lessons for the tea party 2012-11-25T19:00:00Z The novels tell the tragic story of Bobby and Alicia Western, siblings who are haunted by their physicist father’s role in the development of the atom bomb, and by their romantic longing for each other. In His New Books, Cormac McCarthy Gets Real 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z After a question from an audience member about where atoms and matter comes from, Nye said scientists are making discoveries on that front every day. Bill Nye defends evolution in Kentucky debate 2014-02-05T06:59:52Z For example, is a trillionth the size of the nucleus of an atom actually possible? How small can things be and still exist? 2012-11-07T16:15:02Z Uses for graphene, one atom thick and the strongest material yet, are still a twinkle in the structural imagination, but not for long. The Beauty and Mystery of How a Building Is ‘Built’ 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Two Russian-born scientists won the physics prize and the chemistry award went to two Japanese and American researcher who designed techniques to bind together carbon atoms. Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2010-10-07T11:48:00Z “I came because I want my atoms redefined by the vibrations being sent off by the music of Bach, until they just change my personality,” he said. Bach in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z I absolutely hated every single atom of the building, the grounds, the staff … everything. Alan Davies: My family values 2013-07-26T12:00:00Z In line 11, Cavendish seems to be conflating "atom" with element. Poem of the week: Of Many Worlds in This World by Margaret Lucas Cavendish 2012-07-02T10:52:13Z In physics, it seems, an exotic atom is one born with some unusual particles mixed in. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z People are finally seeing “Birthday Candles” and cheering its cosmic look at time, ritual and memory, a play that connects baking a cake to “atoms left over from creation.” Playwright Noah Haidle blows out his ‘Birthday Candles’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z “The atoms in our bodies were forged inside stars,” Livio’s voice said. Outer Space, via Virtual Reality, in Prospect Park 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z The first proof of atoms came from 26-year-old Albert Einstein in 1905, the same year he proposed his theory of special relativity. What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z It’s 1962 and the axis powers won the second world war by dropping an atom bomb on Washington DC. The Man in the High Castle: the Nazis win, but so do viewers 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z And it was the same for the first atom bomb. Zombie Survival Expert Max Brooks 2010-07-26T07:00:00Z “And then there were substantial social spurs to anxiety: the World Wars, the atom bomb. If you weren’t anxious, you were scarcely normal.” Prozac Nation Is Now the United States of Xanax 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z “A materialist like myself believes that the physical world consists of nothing but atoms and molecules and nothing more,” Lightman says. The physicist's life-changing revelation about religion 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z "Genes" were as mysterious and hypothetical as atoms were to the ancient Greeks. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z Her response shook every atom, molecule and cell in his body. Every Atom, Molecule and Cell Connected 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z And yet the idea that the mass of each atom is centered at its nucleus came much later. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Aslan self-identifies as a believer, but acknowledges that someone might as well think everything from the Big Bang to the balance of mass and energy “is all just an accident of atoms.” Reza Aslan’s ‘God: A Human History’ 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z So the nucleus of an oxygen atom is surrounded by eight electrons. Russian scientist created a chemistry tool with room for discovery 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z That big things might be made of smaller ones is not a new idea — natural philosophers proposed the existence of atoms some 2,500 years ago — and not necessarily high-tech. In the galleries: From the everyday to the fantastic 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z "I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." Dealing with social media buzz: Walt Whitman might understand 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z For those of you who bombed physics: A cyclotron is a particle-accelerating instrument that uses high-frequency electricity and a magnet to create and focus a stream of protons to probe the nucleus of an atom. U-Md. professor hooks students on this particle accelerator — by building one 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z It’s as if the psychological exploration they are engaged in were as grave and delicate an enterprise as smashing atoms. Theater Review: ‘A Month in the Country,’ at Williamstown Theater Festival 2012-08-10T23:46:48Z And, regarding Frank compared with his bland predecessor, President Walker, “I think we replaced a dud with an atom bomb.” 'House of Cards' Season 3 Episode 5 Recap: Replacing a Dud With an Atom Bomb 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z And then they organized into atoms and molecules and cells and whatever. Tom Frank interviews Barbara Ehrenreich: “You’re the anti-Ayn Rand” 2014-04-06T11:00:00Z Twentieth-century science fiction was a product of 20th-century science, a period of physical advances and inventions when humans split the atom and traveled to the moon. Review: ‘Black Mirror’ Finds Terror and Soul in the Machine 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z In new research published in Science Advances, we analyzed specific carbon atoms in amino acids — the building blocks of proteins — to discover distinctive fingerprints of the metabolism of different species. Ever wonder how your body turns food into fuel? We tracked atoms to find out 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z As its name suggests, nuclear fusion involves the nuclei of two hydrogen atoms sticking together. When the universe began 2012-07-22T12:00:00Z Ernst Mach was part of this group — he was not convinced that atoms exist, though in many other ways he was prescient. David Byrne Likes Reading Aloud to His Friends 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Picture the atom of expectation smashing the atom of wildly incongruous experience. Mortified: Reading old diary entries in front of an audience is only part of the challenge We can distinguish between molecules that are different by a single carbon atom. Can Scent Be Democratized? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z In Paris, I assisted in breaking the uranium atom, which was being disputed by three laboratories: the 'race' was won by a German. Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato dies at 99 2011-04-30T16:58:15Z Is it an illusion because it’s really just a bunch of atoms? ‘Westworld’ and ‘Devs’ Asked Big Questions. A Physicist Responds. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Michael’s project examined how sound particles called phonons interact with electrons, which are part of an atom. North Bethesda teen wins a top prize at Intel Science Talent Search 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z The total number of neutrons and protons in an atom’s nucleus gives its atomic weight. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z That is really true – the nature of light, the workings of the sun, the laws of electricity and magnetism, the explanation for atoms, gravity and much more can all be expressed with breathtaking economy. The beauty of the Higgs boson 2012-08-04T23:05:33Z Through the sharing of new ideas the ancients identified the atom, measured the circumference of the earth, grasped the environmental benefits of vegetarianism. How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z His voice opens the documentary, and reappears later on to describe the atom bomb attack. ‘Apocalypse ’45’ Review: Graphic Images of Wartime 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Inside our bodies there are atoms and organs, and above us spaceships, “Wi-Fi vibes, radiation, atomic bombs pointed in your direction, drones.” In the Studio With an Actress-Turned-Painter 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Ernestine’s story predictably finishes by circling back to the beginning — cake, stardust and atoms. ‘Birthday Candles’ Review: Another Year, Another Cake, Another Profundity 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z “I suddenly understood how a creative force of nature can become destructive if it is mucked up, polluted, depurified — like the atom.” Actress Zoe Caldwell, Tony winner for ‘Medea,’ dies at 86 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z A well travelled fact that one hears early in chess is that after only three moves, there are more possible game variations than there are atoms in the universe. The joys of being an absolute beginner – for life 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z As one scientist remarked, brain images are now "replacing Bohr's planetary atom as the symbol of science". Human behaviour: is it all in the brain – or the mind? 2013-06-29T23:05:40Z These molecules help to protect cells from damage caused by free radicals – unstable atoms. Eating pumpkin may help you look younger and lose weight, experts say 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z And rather than taking part in one big war or re-enacting Vee’s vendetta, the prisoners bounce off each other like rogue atoms, working against each other and with each other in equal measure. Review: 'Orange is the New Black' Rebounds With a Majestic Fourth Season 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Physicists such as Sheldon and Leonard claim that these two ideas—that matter is made of atoms and is also a form of frozen energy—only make sense in the light of big bang theory. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z “Twin Peaks” slows it down, to show you the universe in the nucleus of an atom. Inhaling Slowly for ‘Twin Peaks,’ Spewing Fire for ‘Game of Thrones’ 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z A fat is monounsaturated if it contains just one double bond among its carbon atoms. Coconut oil: are the health benefits a big fat lie? 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z The siblings, Bobby and Alicia Western, are tormented by the legacy of their father, a physicist who helped develop the atom bomb, and by their love for and obsession with one another. Sixteen Years After ‘The Road,’ Cormac McCarthy Is Publishing Two New Novels 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z The physics of atoms and their ever-smaller constituents and cousins is, as Adam Becker reminds us more than once in his new book, “What Is Real?,” “the most successful theory in all of science.” What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z "Beauty is the universe's most enduring quality," Krohn, now 68, states in her afterword, "it is repeated in atoms and galaxies, numbers and relations and the way a tree grows." 'Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction' yields writing of strangeness and beauty 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z A sense of families splintered into atoms — of siblings divided and parents forcibly separated from their children — pervades “The Night Alive.” Theater Review: Conor McPherson’s ‘The Night Alive,’ With Ciaran Hinds 2013-12-13T03:00:09Z If the fissioning atoms released more neutrons, those “secondary” neutrons would irradiate the manganese. A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Her father was highly critical of her grandfather, recounting his “transgressions, his complicity in the secret military effort to develop chemical weapons and the atom bomb.” An Acclaimed Biographer Takes On Her Grandfather, the Atomic Scientist James B. Conant 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z She discovered the single biggest scientific discovery of that century, that led to tremendous good in the field of medicine, and also some of the worst evil in the form of the atom bomb. Rosamund Pike: War correspondent Marie Colvin “was not fearless” 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Complex elements are forged inside the cores of stars by the nuclear fusion of more basic elements such as hydrogen and helium atoms. Paging Neil deGrasse Tyson: Fossil galaxy may be relic of baby universe 2014-04-09T12:30:00Z Mao: The atom bomb is a paper tiger. The Amazin’ Mets’ Wives on the Brink in 1969 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z When it’s exposed to heat, it causes a chemical reaction that bonds its atoms back together. A sneaker that fixes itself? It could be coming soon. 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z “You don’t do rational things when somebody blows up an atom bomb at your feet.” Peter Bogdanovich, 82, Director Whose Career Was a Hollywood Drama, Dies 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z However, in a saturated fat such as lard, all the carbon atoms are held together with single bonds. Coconut oil: are the health benefits a big fat lie? 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z This look at many of the New Yorkers who played noteworthy roles in the war weaves in songwriters, bureaucrats, physicists who worked on the atom bomb and politicos, including, of course, Franklin Roosevelt. New in Paperback: ‘The Source of Self-Regard’ and ‘Horizon’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z But her performance intuits everything in the air: all the glinting atoms of revulsion, of self-reproach, of thwarted sensuality and frustrated, congealed love. Jeanne Moreau: the intelligent, complex star who lit up the French New Wave 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Formed from two nitrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, the gas is present in much smaller quantities in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide or methane. Nitrous oxide, often called laughing gas, makes a serious impact on the Earth 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Now it was reduced to a bright particular atom, deep blue and exemplary. Read John Ashbery’s Poetry 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z A decade later, Stone told Kuznick he wanted his help on a 90-minute documentary about Wallace, Truman and the birth of the atom bomb. Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again 2012-11-25T03:37:22Z Perhaps he does not believe that tables are made only of atoms. Steven Poole's non-fiction choice ? reviews 2011-03-19T00:06:01Z Perhaps all he means is that atoms cannot be seen with the naked eye. Steven Poole's non-fiction choice ? reviews 2011-03-19T00:06:01Z In 2018, working with colleagues in Japan, we were able to demonstrate that we could indeed use nihydrin to isolate the carbon atoms we wanted from amino acids. Ever wonder how your body turns food into fuel? We tracked atoms to find out 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z No, he is waiting his chance to do good in an explosive crisis: the atom bomb that falls on nearby Nagasaki. The Wolverine: Claws and F/X 2013-07-25T03:00:37Z These electrically charged atoms in the air vastly improve conductivity. What goes on when lightning strikes? 2013-05-25T23:07:12Z We learn to manipulate the atom, we build bombs. Review: ‘Zero Days’ Examines Cyberwarfare’s Potential Online Apocalypse 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Because of its size and complexity, the final atom was dubbed "The Monster". The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z A black-and-white film, with cyclical string music by Mr. Galasso, showed dancers whirling with wreaths of ropes, resembling atoms or ringed planets. Review: Reviving Andy de Groat’s Works in New York 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Billions of particles of invisible “dark matter” are probably flying through your body right now, passing through the spaces between your atoms without a trace. Study: Dark matter near Earth peaks every March 2014-01-08T13:15:00Z Some of her paintings depicted invented characters inspired by Kafka and images suggesting nuclear fission and the atom bomb. June Wayne, Painter and Printmaker, Dies at 93 2011-08-28T00:23:03Z In this wonderfully written and beautifully illustrated volume, Dawkins explicates the reality of who we are, starting with the Big Bang, proceeding through human evolution, and going all the way to atoms and subatomic structures. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z It is the energised atoms in the air that provide the distinctive glow of a lightning bolt. What goes on when lightning strikes? 2013-05-25T23:07:12Z These compounds help the body fight free radicals or unstable atoms, that in high quantities are linked to illnesses such as cancer and heart disease. Here are 9 signs that you have inflammation in your body. Could an anti-inflammatory diet help? 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z "She was a primary-colours politician who disturbed all the atoms in politics," he says. Margaret Thatcher funeral: Dimbleby is stately on TV's near-state ocacasion 2013-04-17T16:46:10Z The reason a heated material glows is that electrons in its atoms have been given extra energy, then drop back to a lower level, losing the energy as a photon of light. What goes on when lightning strikes? 2013-05-25T23:07:12Z They are “the unsplittable atom of American politics” and have “a union like no other.” 'House of Cards' Season 3, Episode 12 Recap: Their Only Child 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Because these outlandish particles are often unstable, exotic atoms, like tragic mulattoes, live short lives. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z We then sent these carbon atoms — from a very metabolically active part of the amino acid called the carboxyl group — through a machine called a mass spectrometer to read their isotope fingerprints. Ever wonder how your body turns food into fuel? We tracked atoms to find out 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z "Bill, I want to tell you, there is a book that tells where atoms come from, and its starts out, 'In the beginning ...,'" Ham said, referring to the Bible's creation story. Bill Nye defends evolution in Kentucky debate 2014-02-05T06:59:52Z As a witness observed 150 years ago, gazing down from the Rotunda dome at Abraham Lincoln’s casket, the crowd in mourning clothes looked “like black atoms moving over a sheet of gray paper.” Perspective | John Lewis’s death was loss for us all. But the powerful Capitol service for him was a blessing. 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Manhattan Project: Beyond the Bomb This new special recalls the lives of the families of Los Alamos, N.M., and the scientists who developed the first atom bombs. Friday's TV Highlights: 'A Capitol Fourth' on PBS 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z All three fit with ease into McAnuff's staging, which is well thought-out in its details, even if the notion of Faust as inventor of the atom bomb seems as contrived as ever. Review: Alagna as a cartwheeling `Faust' at Met 2011-12-24T21:31:04Z His Trinity performance, a collaboration with Biosphere and MFO, was inspired by the development of the atom bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Lustmord: ambient's dark star 2013-03-16T03:08:20Z Humans have mapped genomes, developed lifesaving therapeutic treatments, split the atom, charted the universe — so why are conspiracy theories and other irrational beliefs still so pervasive? 19 New Books Coming in September 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z |
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