This article explores how our understanding of the universe has evolved—from the scale of everyday experience down to the Planck length ...

Cold atom experiments are among the most powerful and precise ways of investigating and measuring the universe and exploring the quantum world. By trapping atoms and exploiting their quantum ...

A researcher, Heikki Mäntysaari from the University of Jyväskylä (Finland), has been part of an international research group that has made significant advances in modeling heavy ion collisions. New ...

Researchers find that a photon can spend a negative amount of time in an excited atomic state while passing through a cloud of atoms ...