To study how stars and planets are born we have to look at star cradles hidden in cool clouds of dust. Far-infrared telescopes are able to pierce through those clouds. Conventionally, niobium nitride ...

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A drop of liquid helium cooled to an extremely low temperature can be made to float in a vacuum for an indefinitely long time. In this state, it could serve as a powerful mini-laboratory for ...

Scientists can now reliably chill specimens near absolute zero for over 10 hours while taking images resolved to the level of individual atoms with an electron microscope. The new capability comes ...

UW graduate student Lauren Kim operates the ultra-high vacuum system housing a Scanning Tunneling Microscope for her research in condensed matter physics. The instrument operates at ultra-low ...

What if all the MRI scanners on Earth suddenly stopped working? Yet what if all the MRI scanners on Earth suddenly stopped working? This isn’t a thought experiment; experts believe that they may ...

“The long-awaited event of filling a helium container with liquid has now taken place, an achievement the Company is pleased ...

THE properties of liquid helium can best be considered under two headings: (a) properties in thermal equilibrium, (b) transport effects. The equilibrium properties, which have been the subject of many ...

Magnesium is a common chemical element, an alkaline earth metal, which is highly chemically reactive and is very light (even lighter than aluminum). Magnesium is abundant in plants and minerals and ...