Most of us learned in high school chemistry class that chemical bonds can only form when electrons are shared or given away from one atom’s outer shell to another’s. But this may not be ...

This strumming with the maser excites the cesium electrons and causes them to jump to a certain hyperfine level. The key point is that the electron cannot stay excited for long, so it soon drops ...

But as in the cesium clock, detectors look for photons released when the electrons settle back to their original states to confirm that the laser is at the correct frequency to make the electrons ...

Castruccio’s lunar power plant (which he calls an “electron farm”) is nothing but a thin plastic sheet coated with cesium or some other material that gives off electrons when struck by light.

The study, titled “Invisible” radioactive cesium atoms revealed: Pollucite inclusion in cesium-rich microparticles (CsMPs) from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant” has just been published in ...

"Conventional" atomic clocks employ cesium atoms, where electrons can be elevated to higher energy states by predetermined microwave radiation frequencies.

A study suggests atoms can bond not only with electrons in their outer shells, but also via those in their supposedly sacrosanct inner shells Most of us learned in high school chemistry class that ...