Researchers at Michigan State University have figured out how to use a fast laser to wiggle atoms in a way that temporarily ...

Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were ...

Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize, said that if he could pass on only one piece of scientific information to future generations, it would be that all things are ...

One question, for instance, might be why can't we? Atoms, which are the building blocks of matter, are mostly empty space.

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Matter gets weird at the quantum scale, and among the oddities is the Efimov effect, a state in which the attractive forces ...

Until now, atoms have never been imaged interacting freely in space, but a new technique known as non-resolved microscopy has changed that. MIT physicists were able to successfully capture images of ...

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