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Good morning. I am delighted to be here today to tell you about some exciting new results from our lab. I will start with a brief description of what we see in
Opening Statement from Press Conference Scientists at JILA, a joint laboratory of the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology
A super-cold collection of molecules behaving in perfect unison has been created for the first time from a sea of "fermion" atoms by researchers at JILA, a
Using laser light as tweezers and a scalpel, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated the use of artificial
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have designed tiny magnetic sensors in a "zigzag" shape that are simpler in design and
A team of researchers at JILA, a joint institute of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of
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Scientists expect to gain important information about the sun's effect on the Earth's atmosphere and climate from sophisticated instruments—all calibrated by
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan have taken a significant
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The following text is a transcript of a press conference hosted by JILA on October 9, 2001. Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman of JILA answered questions from
Capturing the "Holy Grail" Eric A. Cornell of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Carl E. Wieman of the University of Colorado at Boulder led
Bose-Einstein condensates can sometimes explode like a pocket-sized supernova, but when they're not doing that they can look like the inside of a cigar bar
In a Bose-Einstein condensate, virtually all the atoms in the ultra-cold gas fall into the lowest-energy quantum mechanical state. Spread out in space, they
Vortices are fundamental excitations of gases and liquids. Well-known examples include tornados, whirlpools, and smoke rings. The main characteristic of
Eric A. Cornell, a physicist at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology, has been elected a member of the National Academy of
In 1996, researchers at the Boulder, Colo., laboratories of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology confirmed the belief that a
Carl Wieman of the University of Colorado at Boulder and Eric Cornell of the National Institute of Standards and Technology have been awarded the 2000 Benjamin
Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that they can confine neutrons, one of the basic particles of matter, in a three-dimensional magnetic trap, an
There's nothing like the joy of receiving a precision timepiece as a holiday gift. Thanks to the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and
The official U.S. time in any U.S. time zone now can be obtained from the new Internet web site, www.time.gov, maintained by the Boulder Laboratories of the
Upgrades to the Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility at the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology are yielding greatly
Researchers at JILA, a joint research institute of the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado at
Researchers at the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology will announce in tomorrow’s issue of Science magazine that they have