Fall 2008

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  The Polar Molecule Express

  The Jin and Ye groups recently crafted an entirely new form of matter — tens of thousands of ultracold polar molecules in their lowest energy state...  Read More »

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  Marriage — Galaxy Style

  So what happens to the original central black holes when galaxies merge? The two black holes end up in the center of the new and larger galaxy, where they either rotate around each other as a binary or merge together...   Read More »

  
  
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  The Oldest Trick in the Book

  The mission to find the electron electric dipole moment (eEDM) recently took a menacing turn. Chief Eric Cornell and his protégés were already hard at work characterizing the hafnium fluoride ion (HfF⁺)...  Read More »

  
  
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  All Quiet on the Amplifier Front

  Fellow Konrad Lehnert needed a virtually noiseless amplifier to help with his experiments on nanoscale structures, so he invented one. Working with graduate student Manuel Castellanos-Beltran and NIST scientists Kent Irwin, Gene Hilton, and Leila Vale, he conceived a tunable device...   Read More »

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  Dusty Spaces

  Until recently, astronomers have had difficulty figuring out the composition and size of dust grains in galaxies beyond the Milky Way...   Read More »