During the past decade, the availability of simple, effective methods for laser cooling and trapping has enabled enormous advances in the experimental study of atoms in their ground state. Until quite...
Read article: Ultracold plasmas come of age
In the March issue of Physics World, Mike Lockwood of Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Southampton University, UK, and Duncan H Mackay of the University of St Andrews, UK, underline the significance...
In molecular materials like water, the structural units that make up the liquid state can also dictate the properties of the frozen solid. But what about monatomic liquids that are composed of single ...
Icy lava could have created the flat regions on Jupiter's largest moon
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Current flow in the new metallic superconductor could be explained by an old theory
More cash on the cards for European R&D
Turbulence is highlighted by imaging methods from high-energy physics
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The gravitational attraction between closely spaced objects could reveal new dimensions
Read article: The hunt for new dimensions
The physics community loses two luminaries in as many weeks
Ultrashort laser pulses could probe processes that occur almost instantaneously
