The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving ...

In 1931, Harvey Elliott White developed a device that traced out the shapes of electron clouds by approximating solutions to ...

But as impressive as this archive is, it is the byproduct of something that today looks almost equally remarkable: strangers ...

In a finding that’s as strange as it is fascinating, NASA’s Voyager 1 has entered a region just beyond the heliopause where temperatures skyrocket to an estimated 50,000°C, and yet—against all odds—it ...

Cold atoms could also potentially measure much lower vacuum pressures than ion gauges can. The current lowest pressure they’ve reliably measured is around 10 -9 Pa, and NIST scientists are working on ...

Okeechobee sits in the middle of the state like a well-kept secret, the kind of place where the biggest traffic jam happens when cattle cross the road and nobody seems to mind.

The precise imaging of many-body systems, which are comprised of many interacting particles, can help to validate theoretical ...

Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were ...

“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Particle dynamics approach offers faster and more comprehensive analysis of spiral defect chaotic systems and interventions ...