Two physicists in the US have come up with a way to use a “bubble” of ultracold atoms to measure extremely small forces. The scheme, which has yet to be tested experimentally, involves monitoring the ...
Tour de force Illustration of the atomic arrangement within a single lanthanide-doped nanocrystal used by Schuck’s team. Each lanthanide ion can emit light. (Courtesy: Andrew Mueller/Columbia ...
Researchers have discovered how tiny organisms break the laws of physics to swim faster — such secrets of mesoscale physics and fluid dynamics can offer entirely new pathways for engineering and ...
Two independent lines of evidence from the world’s most powerful particle experiments are converging on the same ...
The LHCb experiment has taken a leap in precision physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In a new paper submitted to Physical Review Letters and currently available on the arXiv preprint server, ...
Physicists in Germany have carried out the most accurate measurement to date of the width of the proton. By examining a previously unexplored energy-level transition in the hydrogen atom, Lothar ...