When laser flashes hit matter, electrons are knocked off their orbits around the atomic nuclei. This can generate extremely ...

A cloud of helium atoms split, scattered and fell under gravity, yet still behaved as if its parts were linked. That is the ...

Physicists in China have simulated the effect of "false vacuum decay": a phenomenon believed to play out constantly in the ...

Atomic clocks exploit the properties of atoms to create incredibly precise 'ticks.' Nate Phillips, NIST Most clocks, from ...

A ring of 10 to 30 atoms, each inflated to a fragile, oversized state and held in place by laser tweezers, has given ...

A breakthrough in quantum computing achieves 99.91% accuracy using 17,000 pairs of atoms, bringing us closer to a new era in ...

For the first time, physicists have entangled two atoms while they were in motion and used the result to run one of quantum ...

Quantum physicists observed atoms entangled in motion for the first time, using helium atoms with mass and gravity, opening new ways to explore how quantum mechanics interacts with gravity.

Scientists have proposed a surprising new way to detect gravitational waves—by observing how they change the light emitted by ...

Quantum physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) have achieved a major milestone by directly observing atoms ...

The results are just what theory predicts, but when the theory clashes as strongly with everyday experience as this, confirmation is precious.

Travis Kalanick, the co-founder and former chief executive of Uber, on Friday launched his startup, ‌Atoms, focused on ...