The 20th century was marked by the discovery of exotic states of matter. First, liquid helium was observed to flow without ...
Researchers have demonstrated that quantum entanglement can link atoms across space to improve measurement accuracy. By ...
Together with an international team, researchers from the Molecular Physics Department at the Fritz Haber Institute have ...
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A new computational framework maps 3D atomic positions in amorphous materials, achieving full accuracy for silica using ...
Entangled atoms, separated in space, are giving scientists a powerful new way to measure the world with stunning precision.
Researchers at TU Wien have discovered a quantum system where energy and mass move with perfect efficiency. In an ultracold gas of atoms confined to a single line, countless collisions occur—but ...
Measuring the world precisely is much harder than it sounds. At very small scales, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many heavy atoms form from a supernova explosion, the remnants of which are shown in this image. NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team ...
A couple of weeks back I posted an answer to a question from a Twitter follower’s child, who asked “How Strong Is Space?” That was fun, so here’s another kid-question answered, this one from my own ...
A team of physicists in the Netherlands and Germany recently placed a bunch of titanium atoms under a scanning tunneling microscope. Those atoms were in constant, quiet interaction with each other ...