At first glance, it might seem obvious that atoms touch each other, especially when you consider the material world around us ...

From nearly indestructible metals, like tungsten, to delicate clouds in the sky, atoms make up everything around us. But do ...

"[But] this type of touching does not really make sense at the atomic scale because atoms do not have well-defined outer surfaces." An atom is neither a solid object nor the smallest unit known to ...

Conventional lab-scale laser technology currently achieves ... For experiments that require ultra-precise measurements and control over atoms -- think two-photon atomic clocks, cold-atom ...

This fundamental time-scale bridging problem is currently unsolved ... In other words, at each step, the atom receives forces from its neighbor atoms, which need to be relaxed via an extra ...

Stephen is sharing a recent edition of his Rational Optimist Diary on nanotech and nuclear fusion. An incredibly bright ...

Energy startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems has announced that it will begin construction of the "world's first grid-scale" ...

Conventional lab-scale laser technology currently achieves ... "This will impact technology spaces such as quantum computing with neutral atoms and trapped ions and also cold atom quantum sensors ...

For experiments that require ultra-precise measurements and control over atoms — think two-photon atomic clocks, cold-atom interferometer sensors and quantum gates — lasers are the technology of ...

"Previously, designing clever algorithms at scale was primarily being developed in other fields of machine learning ... DFT is a physics-based numerical approach that uses quantum mechanics to predict ...

Margaret Harris looks back on a year of fascinating research – and ahead to the International Year of Quantum Science and ...

And if you want to see that, you have to look at the scale of atoms." Enamel is composed mostly of minerals that are arranged in repetitive structures that are ten thousand times smaller than the ...