Quantum sensors can be significantly more precise than conventional sensors and are used for Earth observation, navigation, ...

Captain America’s star-spangled shield can stand up against the universe’s most powerful forces all thanks to vibranium. This ...

Dichroic mirror pulses act like velocity-selective traffic controllers for atoms by directing the particles with correct ...

IEEE recognized the achievements of Steve Mann with the Masuru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award at the 2025 IEEE ICCE in Las ...

TAU Systems is developing laser-plasma accelerators to simulate cosmic rays and accelerate testing of electronics.

Greek philosopher Epicurus is famous for teaching: "Pleasure is the principle and end to a happy life" and for his Epicurean school in Athens ...

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The short answer is; no. We will never see atoms using visible light, simply because the wavelength of visible light (around 400 to 700 nanometers) is larger than the size of an atom (around 0.1 to ...

The findings, published in Optics Letters, mark a crucial step in advancing the understanding of quantum systems and their ...

While entanglement has been demonstrated in very small particles, University of Chicago scientists are thinking big, ...

Scientists have found a way to achieve negative refraction—where light bends the "wrong" way—using carefully arranged atomic ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to measure the quantum state of electrons ejected from atoms that have absorbed ...