Over at the Enriched Xenon Laboratory (pictured) at Stanford, something very tiny is going on. So tiny, in fact, that it involves finding “a single barium atom in a 10 ton bath of liquid xenon ...

The solution, according to William Fairbank of Colorado State University and colleagues, is to look for the barium-136 nucleus that is produced by the double beta decay of xenon-136. “None of the ...

Article Open access Published: 21 January 2015 Interplay of weak interactions in the atom-by-atom condensation of xenon within quantum boxes Sylwia Nowakowska, Aneliia Wäckerlin, Shigeki Kawai ...

Van der Waals interactions and the limits of isolated atom models at interfaces. Nature Communications, 2016; 7: 11559 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11559 ...

But they recently succeeded in detecting one of the rarest particle interactions in the universe. [11 Biggest Unanswered Questions About Dark Matter]According to a new study published today (April 24) ...

Using xenon gas treatment and the latest technology is making climbing Mount Everest not just faster but also better for the environment, cutting down garbage and waste, a renowned mountain guide ...

The half-life of xenon-124 — that is, the average time required for a group of xenon-124 atoms to diminish by half — is about 18 sextillion years (1.8 x 10^22 years), roughly 1 trillion times ...