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Quantum Physicist Named 'Australian of the Year'
Chalk one up for the physicists, as 2018’s "Australian of the Year" title goes to a quantum physicist who created the world’s first transistor made from a single atom.
The New Thinnest Mirrors in the World Use Quantum 'Excitons' to Reflect Light
Two separate teams of scientists have built the thinnest mirrors in the world: sheets of molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2), each just a single atom wide.
The Weird Quantum Property of 'Spin'
Opinion You would think that electrons would be easy enough to describe — but a quantum-mechanical property called "spin" makes that task much less straightforward.
These Quantum Droplets Are the Most Dilute Liquids in the Known Universe
A new form of liquid droplet, formed out of potassium "super-atoms," demonstrates strange and powerful quantum effects.
The Subatomic Discovery That Physicists Considered Keeping Secret
This subatomic reaction is eight times more powerful than the reaction at the core of hydrogen bombs.
World's Most Precise Clock Powered by Supercold Strontium Atoms
A new kind of atomic clock is more precise than any yet built, with the ability to tick smoothly for a thousand times the lifetime of the universe.
Is Space Full of Quantum Foam?
Here's what you would see if you were to gaze deeper and deeper into empty space until out of nothing, something suddenly appears.
