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Scientists build atomic light switches to control single photons on demand

Imagine a light switch so small it is made from just a few atoms, ...

Ultrashort laser pulses catch a snapshot of a 'molecular handshake'

Liquids and solutions are complex environments—think, for example, of sugar dissolving in water, where each sugar molecule ...

Scientists Map the Invisible Universe, Revealing New Clues About Dark Matter and Dark Energy

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...