Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Understanding how atoms form is a fundamental and important question, since they make up everything with mass. The question of ...

Researchers are working to move cold atom quantum experiments and applications from the laboratory tabletop to chip-based systems. UC Santa Barbara researchers are working to move cold atom quantum ...

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Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. How do atoms form? – Joshua, age 7, Shoreview, ...

Atoms touch all the time! But to understand why we first have to decide what we mean by the word “touch.” Our normal conception of touching is grounded in the macroscopic world. I put a cup on the ...

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of quantum computers and voltage standards. The appearance of Shapiro steps in ...

In a world first, scientists have experimentally verified the entanglement of the momentum of atoms, a feat previously only achieved with photons. Scientists from Australia and the U.S. pulled off ...

In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used a cloud of atoms chilled down to incredibly cold temperatures to simultaneously measure acceleration in three dimensions—a ...

Have you ever seen a beautiful bunch of flowers packed tightly into a vase? A florist has to wiggle and arrange them perfectly so there are no empty holes. There are times when nature acts like a ...