Photo of the experimental setup showing four high-purity germanium detectors surrounding the target chamber at the end of the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory beamline. This new research ...

July 20 -- Scientists have apparently broken the universe’s speed limit. For generations, physicists believed there is nothing fasterthan light moving through a vacuum—a speed of 186,000 miles ...

In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ ...

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You might think that a hot object pushes atoms and molecules away due to radiation pressure. But a research team showed that for a polarizable atom, the opposite occurs: the hot object attracts it.

Quantum teleportation is one of those mysterious smoke and mirrors tricks which always captures headlines. Although it is called teleportation, no matter is shifted. Instead it is the quantum state of ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CesiumAstro Inc. today announces a key milestone in its collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit; CesiumAstro’s first two spacecraft ...

While airplane and rocket experiments have proved that gravity makes clocks tick more slowly — a central prediction of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity — a new experiment in an atom ...