The year was 1900 and Max Planck was a young physicist working on the problem of blackbody radiation . This was an intense ...

A new way to measure the temperatures of objects by studying the effect of their black-body radiation on Rydberg atoms has ...

Jonny Nelson introduces an animated explanation of black body radiation. All objects are continually absorbing and emitting infrared radiation, for example a heater (radiator). There are no known ...

It was 1900 before researchers succeeded in producing a comprehensive measurement of black-body radiation and the theoretician Max Planck established a radiation law that corresponded to these ...

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a new thermometer using atoms boosted to such high energy levels that they are a thousand times larger than normal.

This innovation revisits the classic concept of blackbody radiation, the type of light emitted by any warm object, including Edison's tungsten bulb. Twisted light is also called chiral because the ...

Discover how Rydberg atoms can measure temperature with unmatched precision. Read more on this breakthrough technology.