Scientists at the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL have realized a long-pursued experimental goal in physics: to show how ...

Every medication in your cabinet, every material in your phone's battery, and virtually every compound that makes modern life work started as a molecular guess, with scientists hypothesizing that a ...

In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ long-running goals: turning molecules into a Bose-Einstein condensate.

The 'superionic ice' can't make up its mind between being a solid or liquid.

Record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle.

Experiments reveal that metallic nanoparticles thousands of atoms wide can exist in quantum superposition, providing a ...

What color is an atom? Since atoms are smaller than the wavelength of visible light, we can’t see them directly - but they still interact with light in ways that create color. Discover how atomic ...

Researchers created a gas that doesn’t experience resistance or diffusion when cooled to freezing, proving it’s possible for ...

Can a small lump of metal be in a quantum state that extends over distant locations? A research team at the University of ...