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Using pulses of laser light measuring mere quintillionths of a second, an international team of scientists has probed the motion of an atom’s outermost electrons in real time. Their methods promise a broad new way to examine how atoms in physical, biological, and chemical systems bond with other atoms to form molecules or crystal structures, and how these bonds break and reform during chemical reactions.

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