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What color is an atom? Since atoms are smaller than the wavelength of visible light, we can’t see them directly - but they ...
If these knots had a slight bias toward matter over antimatter, their unraveling could help explain the matter-antimatter ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have bedeviled physicists and chemists. Their atoms arrange ...
Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) are fascinating states of matter that emerge when atoms or molecules are cooled to extremely ...
Confining and rotating extremely cold atoms or molecules within atomic “Ferris wheels” made from laser light could test ...