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 ...

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 ...

Fragments of energy may be the fundamental building blocks of the universe. The theory combines the ideas of particles and waves into a concentration of energy that flows throughout space and time.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Data may challenge and reshape current models of solar wind evolution. A recent study led by Dr. Michael Starkey of the ...

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