This educational startup in Russia shrinks kids down to the size of individual atoms using virtual reality

MEL Science I recently had the strangely-pleasurable experience of being shrunken down virtually to the size of an individual electron, gaining an immersive 360-degree view of the invisible world that forms the very basis of our reality. MEL Science, a company based in St. Petersburg, Russia, provides a series of virtual reality experiences that can […]

Could dark matter atoms explain a recent observation?

Early this year, a project called EDGES managed to take the Universe’s temperature at a time when the very first stars were forming. The results were somewhat confusing in that the Universe’s regular matter seemed to be much cooler than we’d expect, based on the energy it had shortly after the Big Bang. If the […]

Clouds of atoms, vibrating mirrors show their quantum side

Enlarge / A Bose-Einstein condensate of rubidium atoms forms. Similar clouds of atoms were used to study entanglement. (credit: NIST/JILA/CU-Boulder) To say the quantum world is unintuitive is a staggering understatement. Particles end up in more than one place at a time, and the instances interact with each other. Decisions made after a photon has […]

Play Mighty Atoms commemorates Barbara Buttrick, the first Women’s World Boxing Champion

GETTY Barbara Buttrick on the first official Women’s World Boxing Champion title in 1957 As Brit Anthony Joshua is crowned the new world heavyweight champion, another remarkable UK world champion boxer is being commemorated. When the curtain goes up on the new play Mighty Atoms at Hull Truck Theatre as part of Hull’s City of […]