A precious metal used everywhere from car exhaust systems to fuel cells, platinum is an incredibly efficient catalyst—but it's costly and carbon-intensive. Now, a serendipitous collaboration between ...

Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, researchers have captured the hidden, never-ending vibrations of atoms inside molecules. This first-ever direct view of zero-point motion reveals that ...

Scientists have demonstrated that atoms can exhibit wave-like behavior, challenging long-held assumptions that experiments of this nature were impossible and opening new doors in quantum physics. The ...

In a world first, scientists have experimentally verified the entanglement of the momentum of atoms, a feat previously only achieved with photons. Scientists from Australia and the U.S. pulled off ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers are working to move cold atom quantum experiments and applications from the laboratory tabletop to chip-based systems, opening new possibilities for sensing, precision ...

You've probably seen videos showing characters walking through walls like ghosts. Upon closer inspection, atoms consist of a vast majority of empty space. So why is physical reality so different?