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Tag: Bose-Einstein condensate

The awesome limits of superconductors

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On June 24, a press release from CERN said that scientists and engineers working on upgrading the Large […]

July 5, 2020 Scicomm

Where is the coolest lab in the universe?

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) performs an impressive feat every time it accelerates billions of protons to nearly […]

June 18, 2020 Scicomm

When cooling down really means slowing down

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Consider this post the latest in a loosely defined series about atomic cooling techniques that I’ve been writing […]

May 5, 2020 Scicomm

Atoms within atoms

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It’s a matter of some irony that forces that act across larger distances also give rise to lots […]

January 21, 2020 Scicomm

The science in Netflix’s ‘Spectral’

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It’s fun to think about the implications of a film’s antagonists being modelled after a phenomenon I’ve often read/written about but never thought about that way.

January 9, 2017 Life notes, Science

Relativity’s kin, the Bose-Einstein condensate, is 90 now

The BEC was Einstein’s last major prediction and it took a revolution in quantum optics to be realised.

December 2, 2015 Scicomm, Science

The Nobel intent

About three weeks from now, the Nobel Foundation will announce the winners of the 2015 Nobel Prizes. Every year, […]

September 15, 2015 Scicomm
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