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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.
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The New Thinnest Mirrors in the World Use Quantum 'Excitons' to Reflect LightTwo separate teams of scientists have built the thinnest mirrors in the world: sheets of molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2), each just a single atom wide.
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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.
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These Quantum Droplets Are the Most Dilute Liquids in the Known UniverseA new form of liquid droplet, formed out of potassium "super-atoms," demonstrates strange and powerful quantum effects.
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The Subatomic Discovery That Physicists Considered Keeping SecretThis subatomic reaction is eight times more powerful than the reaction at the core of hydrogen bombs.
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There and Back Again: Scientists Beam Photons to Space to Test Quantum Theory -
World's Most Precise Clock Powered by Supercold Strontium AtomsA 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.
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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.
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'Atomic Fingerprinting' Tech Could End Counterfeit GoodsScientists have developed a new method that can stamp things with "atomic fingerprints" to keep phony products at bay.
