January 12, 2017

Liam Pedersen, director of Nissan's California laboratory next to a LEAF autonomous electric car at CES 2017 in Las Vegas. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

From the Mars vehicles to the autonomous vehicle and back

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Image of light emitted from a single ionized strontium atom immersed in a cold cloud of rubidium atoms. The ion is trapped by electric fields that oscillate at radio frequencies. The atoms are trapped by a focused laser beam. Both the atoms and the ion are cooled to a temperature of a millionth of a Kelvin above absolute zero temperature.

One against a hundred thousand

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