US physicists have successfully trapped and cooled molecules below 1 Kelvin for the first time. Previously only atoms had been cooled to such temperatures. John Doyle and colleagues from Harvard University in the US hope to use the new trapping technique to study ultracold collisions and superfluid behaviour in molecular gases (Nature 395 148).
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