The Laser Where Atoms Listen to Each Other
A regular laser is like a choir where everyone sings their own part — the sound is loud, but with inevitable roughness. In the new quantum laser, the singers hear each other and harmonize their voices.
How to knit a molecular net without a single knot
Crocheting, but instead of yarn you have individual molecules, and instead of a hook, a gold surface. Until now, attempts to knit such molecules into a smooth fabric ended in a tangle: the threads hooked where they shouldn't, and the pattern went awry.
A team of scientists has found a way to fix this.