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Bizarre test shows light can actually cast its own shadow

With the help of a ruby cube and two laser beams, researchers made one ray of light cast a shadow when illuminated by the other

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2C6F140 Atoms and their electron clouds , Quantum mechanics and atomic structure

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You can't put a price on the sense of awe particle physics inspires

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Jets of liquid bounce off hot surfaces without ever touching them

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Jets of liquid bounce off hot surfaces without ever touching them

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Quantum Rubik's cube has infinite patterns but is still solvable

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Knots made in a weird quantum fluid can last forever

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2X1H226 Klosterneuburg - Sir Roger Penrose during interview with Austria Presse Agentur at Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria on 21st May 2015. Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science. He is the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, as well as an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. - 20150521_PD11744 - Rechteinfo: Rights Managed (RM)

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What is the price of genius, asks biography of Roger Penrose

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Heat can flow backwards in a gas so thin its particles never touch

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We've seen particles that are massless only when moving one direction

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There may be a cosmic speed limit on how fast anything can grow

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Cloud-inspired material can bend light around corners

Light can be directed and steered around bends using a method similar to the way clouds scatter photons, which could lead to advances in medical imaging, cooling systems and even nuclear reactors

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Quantum batteries could give off more energy than they store

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Quantum 'Schrödinger's cat' survives for a stunning 23 minutes

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Rich biography of Marie Curie shows how she helped women into science

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Solving Stephen Hawking’s black hole paradox has raised new mysteries

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