Two years ago, physicists at the University of Chicago were greeted with fireworks—atoms shooting out in jets—when they discovered a new form of quantum behavior. But the patterns underlying the ...

Zap a mass of supercooled atoms with a magnetic field and you'll see "quantum fireworks" — jets of atoms firing off in apparently random directions. Researchers discovered this back in 2017, and they ...

A week ago, I stood on the shore of a lake in the Sand Hills of Nebraska, watching the sun rise through diaphanous clouds. The surface of the lake was a gently undulating mirror, reflecting dawn’s ...