Ultracold Bubbles on Space Station Open New Avenues of Quantum Research

Pasadena CA (JPL) May 19, 2022

Since the days of NASA's Apollo program, astronauts have documented (and contended with) how liquids behave differently in microgravity than they do on Earth - coalescing into floating spheres instead of bottom-heavy droplets. Now, researchers have demonstrated this effect with a much more exotic material: gas cooled to nearly absolute zero (minus 459 degrees Fahrenheit, or minus 273 degrees Cel