For centuries, people believed ice was slippery because pressure and friction melted a thin film of water. But new research from Saarland University reveals that this long-standing explanation is ...

To reach absolute zero, all of the particles within an object have to stop moving. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Absolute zero ...

A key objective of ongoing research rooted in molecular physics is to understand and precisely control chemical reactions at very low temperatures. At low temperatures, the chemical reactions between ...

A cloud of atoms with a temperature beyond absolute zero – which is also bizarrely hotter than any positive temperature imaginable – could be a mysterious new quantum state of matter. Luca Donini at ...

An international collaboration of researchers from China, Spain, Denmark, and Brazil has successfully simulated spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) at zero temperature using a superconducting quantum ...