When you think about the temperatures associated with “cold,” you probably imagine a cold winter day, or a block of ice (32 °F, 0 °C, or 273.15 K). This is downright balmy compared to the nanokelvin ...

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Entropy is one of those fearsomely deep concepts that form the core of entire fields of physics (in this case, thermodynamics) that is unfortunately so mathematical that it's difficult to explain in ...

Physicists at Harvard University demonstrated a new cooling technique for ultracold gases that could help reach temperatures even closer to absolute zero than before—and also lead the way to quantum ...