PROF. W. L. BRAGG, in the twenty-fifth annual May Lecture before the Institute of Metals on May 8, dealt with the inner structure, or atomic arrangement, of metals and alloys. In general, when one ...

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

Tsukuba, Japan—When temperature or pressure is applied to a material, its state changes from liquid to solid or remains solid but exhibits structural changes. This change is called a phase transition ...

Ancient history holds many secrets that we haven't yet discovered, and sometimes, those secrets come from fossilized dinosaur eggshells. Researchers at Yale divined this particular dino secret by ...

Studying the molecular machinery of cells from atomic detail to the cellular context and beyond is a great challenge for cell biology. It is hugely important to zoom into the atom-by-atom arrangement ...

Ultracold atoms moving through a carefully designed arrangement of laser beams will jiggle slightly as they go, two NIST scientists have predicted.* If observed, this never-before-seen “jitterbug” ...

IBM has made a breakthrough in quantum computing by demonstrating a way to control the quantum behavior of individual atoms. The discovery has demonstrated a new building block for quantum computation ...