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Your finger can feel the change of a single atom in a material

Your finger can feel the change of a single atom in a material

4 May 2021

We mostly tell textures apart by their surface characteristics, but now we know that the human fingertip can sense molecular changes, even if it’s just a single swapped atom
Frozen cloud of molecules acts as a single quantum object

Frozen cloud of molecules acts as a single quantum object

28 April 2021

For the first time, researchers have created a frozen cloud of molecules that share the same quantum state, meaning it behaves as if it were a single molecule

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