This progress means that, for the first time, complicated astrophysical events like shocks and turbulence can be studied in a ...

Quantum computing will not deliver truly useful business results overnight, but the pace of progress is no longer linear; ...

Their approach, outlined in a paper published in Nature Physics, relies on the use of atom tweezer arrays to control the number of atoms in a system and how they interact with light.

Hollow atoms are special atoms with multiple missing electrons in their inner shells, while their outer shells are still ...

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Optical quantum clocks developed at the University of Adelaide have been proven to outperform GPS navigation systems by many ...

A trio of scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics for managing to do something that had always eluded humankind: Spotting electrons zipping around in an atom.

The invisible dark matter is one of the universe's biggest mysteries, and its existence is confirmed only by the ...

Stanford University, for example, now has a two-mile-long atom-smashing model called SLAC (TIME, July 22). SLAC, which stands for Stanford Linear Accelerator, is just beginning its experimental ...

Quantum sensors have become important tools in low-energy particle physics. Michael Doser explores opportunities to exploit ...

An atom consists of a heavy center ... And based on their understanding of physics, scientists believe that the universe was much hotter when it was smaller. Before this time, the electrons had too ...