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“Focusing solely on the issue of game time, Patterson’s move makes perfect sense”, writes Phil West ...

A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom ...

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Seventeen miles of underground tunnel, thousands of superconducting magnets, and protons whipped to a fraction below light ...

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A sensitive matter-wave interferometer measuring moiré fringes offers force sensitivity comparable to quantum interference ...

The 20th century was marked by the discovery of exotic states of matter. First, liquid helium was observed to flow without friction at extremely low temperatures, a phase now known as superfluid. Soon ...