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In a stunning leap for quantum optics, scientists have generated ultrafast light pulses whose quantum uncertainty can be ...

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Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics." The prize has been ...

STOCKHOLM — John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for research on the ...

This Star Trek concept ignited a dream that humans could one day travel faster than the speed of light. Now physicists are ...