Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you'd like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Understanding how atoms form is a fundamental ...

Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were ...

Repeatedly energising a collection of ultracold atoms should destroy their collective structure, but quantum effects seem to counteract the process. “We expected to see the opposite,” says Nӓgerl. The ...