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This Box Could Become the Coldest Spot in the Universe
Lasers and microgravity will chill this ice chest-size box to 10 billion times colder than the vacuum of space.
This Bizarre, Overstuffed Atom Is the Turducken of the Microscopic World
These giant, overstuffed atoms take advantage of the weird properties of materials at very low temperatures.
Elusive Neutrinos Detected in Never-Before-Seen Interaction
For the first time, scientists have proven a phenomenon, called coherent scattering, experimentally with the world's smallest neutrino detector.
Really Micro Machines: Molecular Cars Prep for First-Ever Race
Tiny vehicles made from a single molecule will go head-to-head in the first ever NanoCar Race tomorrow.
Physicists 'See' Location of 23,000 Single Atoms for First Time
For the first time, scientists have seen the exact locations of more than 23,000 atoms in a particle that's small enough to fit inside the wall of a single cell.
Tiny 'Atomic Memory' Device Could Store All Books Ever Written
A new "atomic memory" device that encodes data atom by atom can store hundreds of times more data than current hard disks can, a new study finds.
