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Highlights the European Science Foundation Workshop on opportunities and challenges for atomic and molecular science at the new European VUV- and X-FEL sources in Berlin, Germany on December 8-9, 2003. Result of the rapid progress in the development of tabletop lasers; Presentation of study on the multiple ionization of xenon clusters; Sessions on ionization and dissociation processes in molecules and clusters.

The article reports that the smallest drop of acid exists within superfluid helium nanodrops cooled to below one kelvin. Results of a research conducted by Martina Havenith of Ruhr University Bochum in Germany show that dissociation happen in very cool nanodrops. The data helps improve various chemical processes including polar clouds and spontaneous synthesis in space.