Image: This colorized scanning electron micrograph shows a cube of germanium attached to a membrane. The four small light blue rectangles at the midpoints of the membrane perimeter are chip-scale ...

In the strange world of quantum mechanics, nothing isn’t ever actually nothing — and now we have found that nothing, or the absence of a photon, can be used to cool things down. One of the most common ...

In the last few decades, physicists have found ways to super-cool objects so that their atoms are at a near standstill, wrestling small objects such as clouds of millions of atoms, or nanogram-scale ...