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Before her disappearance, Casias, 53, worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where leading defensive nuclear research is conducted and where the world's first atomic weapons were developed during World War II.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

Angular momentum is familiar in everyday life through spinning objects like bicycle wheels or merry-go-rounds, but at the atomic scale it is deeply connected to magnetism.

From Science Daily • May 24, 2026

Aside from quantum computers themselves, Infleqtion is developing technologies like quantum sensors and atomic clocks that lend themselves to precision timing and navigation.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

I want the atomic unit of Airbnb, the center of Airbnb, not to be homes, but to be people.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

The horizontal rows, meanwhile, arrange the chemicals in ascending order by the number of protons in their nuclei–what is known as their atomic number.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson