The word magic is not often used in the context of science. But in the early 1930s, scientists discovered that some atomic ...

A new technology to continuously place individual atoms exactly where they are needed could lead to new materials for devices ...

During Cold War-era plutonium production at what is now the Department of Energy's Hanford Site in Washington State, aluminum ...

In the world of quantum physics, where the rules of everyday reality seem to bend and twist, researchers have made a ...

What’s fun is that this group delay can theoretically be in the negative. The team used light whose frequency is close to the ...

A research team at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a new advanced microscopy tool to "write" with atoms, placing ...

Now MIT physicists have directly observed edge states in a cloud of ultracold atoms. For the first time, the team has captured images of atoms flowing along a boundary without resistance, even as ...

Seeking to improve the tokamak fusion reactor known as ITER, researchers have found a way to stop rogue tungsten atoms from ...

(Spoiler alert: Southeast Asia comes out well in this analysis.) That divide is between bits and atoms. Think of it as software and the physical world. This stark divide is illustrated when you ...

Boron powder can be used to shield tokamak walls from the extreme heat of fusion, presenting a solid strategy for sustainable ...

But Ohmori and his team are pursuing an alternative approach based on cold atoms, and he sees this method leapfrogging superconductors in the medium term. “To create a truly useful quantum ...