To prove that a two-neutrino double electron capture event has occurred, the Xenon researchers instead looked to the empty spaces left behind in the decaying atom. "After the electrons are ...

Here we present an approach to study a condensation process atom-by-atom with the scanning ... on—but is not limited to—the model case of xenon condensation and goes significantly beyond ...

Tatsuo Kaneyasu at the SAGA Light Source in Tosu, Japan, and his colleagues have now observed such rapid changes in an atom of xenon gas. The scientists zapped the atom with pairs of ultrashort ...

The universe is more than 13 billion years old. Multiply this number by a trillion and that is the half-life of a xenon-124 atom, which is the time it takes for a group of xenon-124 to diminish by ...

And while XENON1T was built to capture the interaction between a dark matter particle and the nucleus of a xenon atom, the detector actually picks up signals from any interactions with the xenon.

Then the sensor was able to weigh an atom of xenon to the nearest yoctogram, or 10-24 grams. This makes it the first scale capable of detecting a single proton, which weighs in at 1.7 yoctograms.

[11 Biggest Unanswered Questions About Dark Matter] According to a new study published today (April 24) in the journal Nature, the team of more than 100 researchers measured, for the first time ever, ...