Cool Calculations for Cold Atoms: New theory of universal three-body encounters

Three panels illustrate the condition of Efimov states (3-atom stable states). The upper, bell-shaped surface represents the probability...
Secure Computing for the ‘Everyman': Quantum computing goes to market in tech transfer agreement with Allied Minds

This small device developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory uses the truly random spin of light particles as defined by laws of quantum...
NASA Probes Studying Earth’s Radiation Belts to Celebrate Two Year Anniversary

This image was created using data from the Relativistic Electron-Proton Telescopes on NASA's twin Van Allen Probes. It shows the...
Memory Reformat Planned for Opportunity Mars Rover

NASA's Mars rover Opportunity captured this view southward just after completing a 338-foot (103-meter) southward...
Cosplayers Fight for Online Anonymity and Privacy During Dragon Con
Nanoscale assembly line

On the nano assembly line, tiny biological tubes called microtubules serve as transporters for the assembly of several molecular objects....
New analytical technology reveals 'nanomechanical' surface traits

A new research platform uses a laser to measure the "nanomechanical" properties of tiny structures undergoing stress and heating, an...
NASA Radar System Surveys Napa Valley Quake Area

NASA's C-20A Earth science research aircraft with the UAVSAR slung underneath its belly lifts off the runway at...