What is the purpose of light? How does light work? Why does light exist? This video explores the longstanding debate over ...

If you think of a single atom as a grain of sand, then a wavelength of visible light—which is a thousand times larger than ...

Confining and rotating extremely cold atoms or molecules within atomic “Ferris wheels” made from laser light could test ...

Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atom's nucleus, using the atom's own electrons as "messengers" ...

MIT researchers double the accuracy of optical atomic clocks by reducing quantum noise with an innovative laser technique.

Researchers are working to move cold atom quantum experiments and applications from the laboratory tabletop to chip-based systems. UC Santa Barbara researchers are working to move cold atom quantum ...

The footage offers an unprecedentedly colorful look at the extreme physics at play—revealing valuable information for ...

Developed by researchers at MIT, the method uses the atom’s own electrons as “messengers” within a molecule to help probe ...

Herschel Specter arrived on the campus of MIT in the late 1950s as the nation was figuring out how to add nuclear power to ...

If these knots had a slight bias toward matter over antimatter, their unraveling could help explain the matter-antimatter ...

The actor, who took on a multitude of characters this season, discusses what fuels Godolkin’s brand of violence, Cipher ...

Google, Quantum Echoes can explain how atoms in a molecule interact using nuclear magnetic resonance, a development that ...