AMO physics needs funding.

The article focuses on the findings of a report released by the U.S. National Research Council on the funding needed by atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) as it faces six scientific challenges. The six challenges that need support are new methods to measure the nature of space and time with high precision, the new field of coherent quantum gases, the development of new x-ray free-electron lasers and other high-intensity and short-wavelength sources, ultrafast quantum control, atom-by-atom control of quantum structures and new approaches to quantum computing and communication.