The tiny atom, the basic building block of everything, is itself almost nothing, but atoms form a crossroads where science ...

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

Starlight and stardust are not enough to drive the powerful winds of giant stars, transporting the building blocks of life ...

Researchers at TU Wien have developed a one-dimensional “quantum wire” using a gas of ultracold atoms. In this system, both ...

Ultracold atoms have successfully mimicked a fundamental quantum effect normally found in electronic circuits.

If atoms did not connect to one another, everything we know would not exist. The Sun, the Earth, animals, plants, us — we are all based on that single chemical process when two atoms bond and form ...

The oxidative power makes atomic oxygen useful for a number of fields and industries, but scientists don’t know all the ...

For the first time, scientists have observed the iconic Shapiro steps, a staircase-like quantum effect, in ultracold atoms.

Researchers at the ArQuS Laboratory of the University of Trieste (Italy) and the National Institute of Optics of the Italian ...

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 ...

Starlight and stardust are not enough to drive the powerful winds of giant stars, transporting the building blocks of life ...