electron
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A team of researchers has pushed the limits to an extreme, creating one so tiny it can only be detected using an electron microscope.
From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026
After knocking out an electron from the neon atom using soft X-rays, they followed how the system evolved for up to a picosecond, which is extremely long on an atomic timescale, before the decay occurred.
From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026
During this time, an electron was transferred between atoms and a low-energy electron was emitted.
From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026
That atom then stabilizes itself by pulling an electron from a nearby atom, while the released energy ionizes a third neighbor.
From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026
The electron is a zero-dimensional object, and its very zerolike nature ensures that scientists don’t even know the electron’s mass or charge.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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