Researchers have successfully created and sustained a Bose-Einstein condensate—the fifth state of matter—aboard the ISS for ...

What is a Bose-Einstein Condensate? A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is an exotic state of matter that forms when a dilute gas of bosonic particles is cooled to temperatures very close to absolute ...

Berkeley -- Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have the universe's coldest substance running in circles. The UC Berkeley team has created a Bose-Einstein condensate of rubidium ...

Researchers have created a Bose-Einstein condensate with record speed, creating the fascinating phase of matter in about 100 femtoseconds. To get an idea of how quick that is, hundred femtoseconds ...

With the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics due to be announced on Tuesday 8 October, Physics World journalists pick their favourite Nobel awards from the past. Susan Curtis argues the case for the 2001 ...

Aboard the International Space Station, Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken are preparing for two spacewalks that will finish a multi-year battery replacement operation outside the ISS. The new batteries ...