Physicists Create an Exotic New Form Of Matter: The ‘Fermi Sea’
At the lowest temperatures in the Universe, physics gets funky. When atoms are cooled to just above absolute…
Meet the 15-year-old prodigy trying to unlock the secrets to human immortality
Laurent Simons is only 15, but he is already moving toward a goal that could shape the rest…
‘Mini Universe’ built from ultracold atoms measures time without a clock
A trapped cloud of ultracold atoms, colder than almost anything found in nature, has become the setting for…
Historic discovery shows atoms can exist in two places at once
A cloud of helium atoms split, scattered and fell under gravity, yet still behaved as if its parts…
Scientists create Bose-Einstein condensate leading to a new fifth state of matter
In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of…
Physicists Propose a ‘Neutrino Laser’ Straight Out of Science Fiction
MIT physicists have proposed a way to make a super sci-fi-sounding device: a neutrino ‘laser,’ which could help…
Physicists Introduce Concept of Neutrino Laser
Super-cooling radioactive atoms could produce a laser-like neutrino beam, according to a duo of physicists from MIT and…
Physicists propose tabletop “neutrino laser” to probe ghost particles
Trillions of ghostly particles called neutrinos stream through our bodies every second, slipping past atoms without a trace.…