The latest Nobel prize in

The latest Nobel prize in physics honors Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, and Carl E. Wieman for work with Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms. What’s that? You don’t really know what Bose-Einstein condensation is? Take a look at the Bose-Einstein condensation homepage at the University of Colorado at Boulder. They have a really nifty site that explains how it works. The animations are high quality and work well to augment the explanation. They also use a cartoonish dialogue explanatory approach that, while it sounds lame to describe it, is I think very successful. The overall physics page for the university looks like it’s loaded with a bunch of other goodies I’ll have to check out later.