Moving Atoms. Watching researchers move atoms can be an unsettling yet wonderful experience: It’s hard to conceive that humans can manipulate things so small that they can barely be called ...

For 22 h over Nov. 9 and 10, 1989, Donald M. Eigler and Erhard K. Schweizer used the ultrasharp tip of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to pick up 35 xenon atoms and spell IBM in 5 nm tall ...

Physicists describe how they manipulated atoms in an unusual state of matter wherein they act much more like a single, wave-like structure than a group of individual particles.

Moving atoms in the quantum world. When a particle passes through a barrier that it normally wouldn’t be able to go through, this phenomenon is called tunneling.

IBM has figured out how much force it takes to move atoms. Next, it will try to build things with those atoms. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware ...