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During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

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Physicists at the University of Stuttgart have teleported quantum information between photons from different light sources, ...

This means that it would still take a little over four whole years of traveling at lightspeed to reach the red dwarf—not that ...

Researchers from McMaster University and the University of Pittsburgh have created the first functionally complete logic gate ...

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Although recent years have seen substantial improvements in the perfomance of photonic-crystal cavities, their design has been a rather hit and miss affair. By turning around the general approach to ...

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