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A new room-temperature quantum device developed at Stanford uses twisted light and advanced materials to link photons and ...

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A ring of 13 carbon atoms and two chlorine atoms has a remarkable molecular structure that means you would have to go around the loop four times to return to your starting position ...

Why on earth should you care that physicists have now filmed skyrmion lattices melting? Well, there are actually some very good reasons why.

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Every time you pay online, your data is protected by a maths problem nobody has proved is unbreakable. Here is what that means, and why the world is already preparing for the worst.