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Light has always been the stage on which quantum mechanics performs its strangest tricks, and the double-slit experiment is ...

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to ...

Physicists in China have brought one of Einstein’s thought experiments into reality—but not quite with the outcome he hoped ...

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Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new ...

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Some discoveries arrive quietly, without fireworks or clean endings. Astronomers were watching a distant flare from a galaxy ...

The man was the smartest person on the planet. On his birthday, why not celebrate by quoting him and sounding brilliant?

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