Today, the U.S. National Science Foundation announced $25 million for a pioneering physics center on the CU Boulder campus potentially paving the way for new discoveries around everything from the behavior of the humble electron to complex molecules.
For nearly two decades, physicists at JILA have pioneered record-fast lasers that can fit on a table and have chilled clouds of atoms to just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero. With a new award, their work is just getting started.