Yesterday, I went to visit the family home and birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton. One of the greatest scientists the world has known, Newton’s achievements include describing universal gravitation, the three laws of motion, conservation of momentum and angular momentum, inventing the reflecting telescope, developing a theory of colour, formulating an empirical law [...]
Molly’s brother was recently featured on the University of Virginia website.
Cass Sackett, a U.Va. physicist, is one of a growing number of scientists hot at work in this coldest field of physics. He freezes atoms in their tracks, locking them in place at a billionth of a degree above absolute zero (about minus-459 degrees Fahrenheit), [...]
