(PhysOrg.com) -- Glass fiber cables are indispensable for the internet – now they can also be used as a quantum physics lab. The Vienna University of Technology is the only research facility in the ...

More than 80 years have passed since Louis de Broglie discovered that matter can act like a wave as well as a particle. With advances in technology, scientists have recently begun exploiting this ...

In my previous blog, Reading the tea leaves, I stated that: “it is impossible to divide an atom in two while maintaining a non-explosive environment”. John Michael Williams, Senior Adjunct Faculty at ...

Adrian Cansell loading a 100mm silicon wafer into a 200 kV ion implanter. University of Surrey Ion Beam Centre, Author provided Lord Rutherford was the first to explain, in 1911, that atoms are made ...

I love thinking about things I can’t see with just my eyes. Like the atoms that make up everything. I asked my friend Fred Gittes how to figure out the number of atoms in a leaf. He’s a physicist at ...

Physicists with the international ALPHA Collaboration at CERN in Geneva have succeeded in storing a total of 309 antihydrogen atoms, some for as long as 1,000 seconds (almost 17 minutes) or even ...

Project Avogadro seeks to change the definition of a kilogram from the weight of a hunk of metal that currently resides in France to a measurement based on fundamental constants (like every other unit ...

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