Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The members of the BEC team at Columbia, from left to right: associate research scientist Ian Stevenson, doctoral student Niccolò ...

Quantum physics has quietly been rewriting the rulebook on matter, and the latest breakthroughs suggest that the so‑called fifth state is no longer a niche laboratory curiosity. From orbiting ...

In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ long-running goals: turning molecules into a Bose-Einstein condensate.