When most of us picture an atom, we think about a small nucleus made of protons and neutrons orbited by one or more electrons. We view these electrons as point-like while rapidly orbiting the nucleus.

While many IT departments grapple with big data, IBM says it has the smallest data in the world: one bit on one atom. Researchers at IBM’s Almaden lab in San Jose, California, have written and read a ...

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Phil Rhodes casts his eye over the Atom One SSM500, an ultra slow motion broadcast camera housed in a tiny package. There’s a part of the industry where size matters, and not in the usual sense. Tiny ...