A scene from the ‘Schrödinger's Cat’ video created by the research team. Each yellow dot represents a single rubidium atom. Credit: Physical Review Letters. Scientists have created the world's ...
Water is all around us, yet its surface layer—home to chemical reactions that shape life on Earth—is surprisingly hard to study. Experiments at SLAC's X-ray laser are bringing it into focus.
Like soft serve ice cream, beams of atoms and molecules now come with a swirl. Vortex beams made of light or electrons have shown promise for making special types of microscope images and for ...