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In this episode of Physics World Stories, host Andrew Glester explores the fascinating hunt for pristine comets – icy bodies ...

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Researchers at the University of Basel and the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel have demonstrated how quantum mechanical ...

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Far beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists are mapping a landscape that looks less like a frozen desert and more like an ...

Smaller version Illustration of a conventional atomic fountain clock (left) next to NPL’s miniature atomic fountain clock.

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Entangled atoms, separated in space, are giving scientists a powerful new way to measure the world with stunning precision.

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