Scientists have created a giant quantum tornado inside a helium superfluid, and they want to use it to probe the enigmatic nature of black holes. The whirlpool — made from liquid helium cooled to near ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Under a tangled mess of pipes, tubes, gauges, ...

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 ...

How would you go about determining absolute zero? Intuitively, it seems like you’d need some complicated physics setup with lasers and maybe some liquid helium. But as it turns out, all you need is ...

Studies of the vastness of the universe and the invisible smallness of the atom are remote from the things of everyday life. Scientists also go far from familiar things in the study of low ...

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Getting anything down to true absolute zero—where there is no atomic movement whatsoever—is probably a physical impossibility. But in our quest to see how cold things can get, we've come across some ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Researchers working with a type of super-cooled helium have made the frigid stuff whistle, an ...

Prior to Intel’s reveal of its seventh-generation Kaby Lake desktop processors in early January, Asus held an Absolute Zero event challenging attendees to push the limits of those new Intel chips.