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Physicists should take time to ponder the strangest ideas

There are other ways to explain wave-particle duality than Albert Einstein's, but we don't teach them. Excluding the conceptual challenges of quantum mechanics from the classroom limits our students, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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An illustration of photonic crystals, materials that can trap and direct light

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Crystal device could be used to build tiny particle accelerators

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The device uses a maze of components and a laser

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Quantum camera takes images of objects that haven’t been hit by light

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The crystal growers behind the graphene revolution

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The crystal growers behind the graphene revolution

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The Matter-wave laser Interferometric Gravitation Antenna

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Gravitational wave hunters will get an ultracool new tool in 2023

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The LCLS-II electron gun in a Berkeley Lab clean room where it was assembled. (Marilyn Chung/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

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The world's ultimate X-ray machine will start up in 2023

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Achieving nuclear fusion would be building on the shoulders of giants

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Achieving nuclear fusion would be building on the shoulders of giants

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How sounds from space are revealing otherwise hidden cosmic phenomena

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How sounds from space are revealing otherwise hidden cosmic phenomena

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It may be possible to traverse a wormhole and then send a signal home

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Laser

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Lasers used to throw and catch single atoms for first time

Extremely cold atoms were thrown with one laser beam and caught with another. The technique could be used in quantum computing

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The strange physics of absolute zero and what it takes to get there

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How to beat your family at board games with quantum tricks

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Unlimited energy from fusion became a more feasible prospect in 2022

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The W boson gave particle physicists a major shock in 2022

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