The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving ...

By using something called a quantum grid, scientists have found a clever way to simultaneously measure momentum and position ...

In 1931, Harvey Elliott White developed a device that traced out the shapes of electron clouds by approximating solutions to ...

AFTER the exponential law in radioactive decay had been discovered in 1902, it soon became clear that the time of disintegration of an atom was independent of the previous history of the atom and ...

But as impressive as this archive is, it is the byproduct of something that today looks almost equally remarkable: strangers ...

Quantum mechanics theory predicts that, in addition to exhibiting particle-like behavior, particles of all sizes can also have wave-like properties. These properties can be represented using the wave ...

The aurora borealis is a spectacle of space weather, but solar flares and coronal mass ejections have far more Earthly ...

Cold atoms could also potentially measure much lower vacuum pressures than ion gauges can. The current lowest pressure they’ve reliably measured is around 10 -9 Pa, and NIST scientists are working on ...

Okeechobee sits in the middle of the state like a well-kept secret, the kind of place where the biggest traffic jam happens when cattle cross the road and nobody seems to mind.

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