US physics lab ties in race for atomic-scale breakthrough
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - 20:14
in Physics & Chemistry
Everybody loves a race to the wire, even when the result is a tie. The great irony is the ultraprecise clocks that could result from this competition could probably break any tie. A second lab of physicists has now demonstrated the long-sought creation of a Bose-Einstein condensate of strontium atoms.