Here's one of the coolest sentences you'll ever read: The International Space Station will soon be the coldest place in the known universe. A new instrument that will be sent to the ISS, called the ...

A team of researchers has developed a new quantum dilution refrigerator that could revolutionize quantum computing research. Able to create conditions close to absolute zero (more than -400 degrees ...

Even the frigid depths of space are toasty by the standards of NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL), an instrument being developed to study matter at extremely low temperatures. Share on Facebook (opens ...

It's certainly been a cold week in Colorado, and the state was home to one of the coldest places in the universe. But people ...

Scientists have observed anyons -- quasiparticles that differ from the familiar fermions and bosons -- in a one-dimensional quantum system for the first time. The results may contribute to a better ...

Even before the first stars lit up the Universe, the Cosmos was not the cold place most researchers once imagined. New ...

The early universe was already warm before reionization, revealing that the first stars did not flicker on in an icy cosmos.

Astronomers hunting for evidence of the light from the first stars and galaxies have found that the universe was warm, rather than cold, before it "lit up." A Curtin University-led team from the ...