Fermi gas atoms form supercool molecules
US physicists have made ultracold molecules in a Fermi gas for the first time
Read article: Gold floats in magnetized oxygen
Gold floats in magnetized oxygen
Physicists have magnetically levitated objects in liquid oxygen
Read article: Optical tweezers grab the limelight
Optical tweezers grab the limelight
A self-correcting laser beam can manipulate particles in new ways
Laser tweezers get a grip on DNA
Versatile optical technique could play a role in fields from biomechanics to nanotechnology
Atoms perform a quantum flip
Unlike billiard balls, atoms can suddenly reverse their momentum
Molecular storage ring makes its debut
The multitude of energy levels found in molecules has so far defeated the use of laser-based techniques, which rely on exciting transitions that can spontaneously radiate and return to the original le...
Molecules made in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
Molecules are poor candidates for the standard techniques used to create Bose-Einstein condensates because of their complicated internal vibrational and rotational structures. But by creating the mole...
Astronomy and physics dominate Science top ten
Confirmation that the universe is flat – expanding at just the right rate not to collapse – came from measurements of ripples in the cosmic background radiation left over from the big bang...
Electrons trapped by laser beam
The experiment was carried out inside a vacuum chamber filled with a low density nitrogen or argon gas. A wave plate – in the form of a small circular piece of material – was inserted into...
Fermions go degenerate
Brian DeMarco and Deborah Jin used a pair of magneto-optical traps to confine about 700000 atoms of potassium-40 at temperatures below 300 nanokelvin. This is about half of the degeneracy temperature ...
