Despite the wide use of digital weighing equipment, the mechanical beam scale remains popular. Most people are probably familiar with the medical version, but there are also delicate instruments ...

Gaby and Alex’s team developed a chip-scale atomic clock (CSAC) that is a little larger than a peanut. Rubidium atoms in the atomic beam provide the microwave quantum transition that is used by the ...

To do this, researchers are looking into precisely steering, in real time, a curve-shaped beam of weird "virtual ... be directed to manipulate ultrafine-scale features on the surface of a metal.