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10 targets for sharpening HIT’s aim for the 2020s

So you’re doubtlessly wondering why the following column appears now, apparently so dismissive of 2019, which is the newest year we’re all worrying about. One reason harkens back to my early journalistic years at a community newspaper, where we were forbidden to use the phrase “ ‘Tis the season” in a headline more than once… Read More: 10 targets for sharpening HIT’s aim for the 2020s »

Ultracold atoms can make strange and beautiful quantum fireworks

Oooh, aaah!H. Fu et al By Leah Crane It’s a big boom, only on a miniature scale. When waves build up in a quantum fluid of ultracold caesium atoms, they can cause the atoms to ripple outwards in a starburst shape, creating beautiful, tiny, fireworks. The fireworks occur in a Bose-Einstein condensate, (BEC), a quantum… Read More: Ultracold atoms can make strange and beautiful quantum fireworks »