Try to fathom the power of 1 million nuclear power plants. Now, imagine there is a way to pack the equivalent of that into ...

Cutting-edge technology meets the Kansas cow farm in a collaboration between physicists and agriculture scientists.

The objective of the research in the atomic and molecular laser spectroscopy laboratory is to gain knowledge about the basic properties of ions and neutral atoms and molecules, with a particular ...

Rubidium atoms can behave unpredictably during atomic collisions, especially when exposed to specific laser light. Researchers have now discovered that these tiny interactions can release unexpected ...

Optical atomic clocks have the potential to improve timekeeping and GPS accuracy by a factor of 1,000, enhancing the ...

Physicists have transformed laser light into a supersolid, marking an entirely new process for achieving this mysterious ...

A memorandum of understanding has been signed by representatives from politics, business and science aimed at establishing a laser-based nuclear fusion power plant at the former Biblis nuclear power ...

The reconciliation of general relativity and quantum mechanics is one of the biggest challenges in science, one that ...

Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (commonly referred to ... the creation of ultracold quantum gases and another in 2005 for breakthroughs in ultraprecise laser and optical physics. Some of the ...

Missouri University of Science and Technology graduate student Shruti Majumdar is building her Ph.D. dissertation on two ...

The ability to predict how atomic collisions will behave based on their hyperfine structure will likely be useful for advancing laser-cooling techniques, molecular quantum science, and the next ...

Most atomic clocks use microwave frequencies to induce these energy oscillations in atoms. In recent years, researchers in the field have explored the possibility of using laser instead to induce ...