Many laymen will not be aware that science has never been able to X-ray a single atom. The best that current state-of-the-art synchrotron scanners can manage is to X-ray an attogram—about 10,000 atoms—but the signal produced by a single atom is so weak that conventional detectors cannot be used. Until now. This landmark feat was […]

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