An atom consists of a heavy center, called the nucleus, made of particles called protons and neutrons. An atom has lighter ...

Using optical tweezers composed of laser light, researchers have developed a novel way to manipulate individual atoms and create a state of hyper-entanglement. This breakthrough could lead to new ...

Blink and you might miss it, but if you keep your eye on the monitors in professor Sebastian Will's lab, you'll catch a ...

The surprising answer is that more massive atoms are made in stars. To make atoms with several protons and neutrons stuck together in the nucleus requires the type of high-energy collisions that ...

By using light to emulate the structure of space-time, researchers can better understand black holes – and the exotic objects ...

This abstract geometry comes to life in laboratories where physicists like Comin study crystals — lattices of atoms in repeating patterns. In recent years, they’ve found that 2D crystals — flat ...

(In the current experiment, the researchers didn’t actually move the device itself but used lasers to push on the atoms, causing acceleration). “Our Bose-Einstein Condensate is a matter-wave pond made ...

The team’s Atom-Resolved Microscopy is done in this way. Atoms are allowed to move about and interact freely. The researchers then turn on a lattice made of light that, for a fraction of a ...

When IBM researcher Don Eigler picked up and moved the first individual atom 20 years ago today, he paved the way for what arguably was the smallest publicity stunt ever: Big Blue's logo made from ...