Bright idea: Wolfgang Ketterle (in his M.I.T lab) hopes to discover new forms of matter by studying ultracold atoms. Richard Howard Where's the coldest spot in the universe? Not on the moon ...

Once the diamonds are brought to the surface and cooled relatively quickly, those carbon atoms are locked into place and there's just not enough energy to now start rearranging them into graphite.

and Cornell University claim they have developed a new method to make stacks of semiconductors that are just a few atoms thick. According to a study published in the scientific magazine Nature ...