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How subatomic particles exceed the local speed of light in water and unleash a dazzling electromagnetic shock wave.
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How a tiny rotation between two atomic sheets created an entire branch of modern physics called twistronics.
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How a mangrove fish compensates for light refraction and manipulates hydrodynamics to shoot down prey two meters away.
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A marvel of quantum physics capable of keeping time without losing a single second in 30,000 million years and measuring Einstein's time dilation on a lab bench.
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How machine learning is revolutionizing seismic forecasting
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Why could traveling to the past create logical contradictions impossible to resolve?
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Plants use quantum effects to achieve near-perfect energy efficiency
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A breakthrough exceeding the computational capacity of the entire history of the universe
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An underground tunnel over three kilometers long fires 27,000 flashes per second to capture the exact moment molecular bonds form or break.
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In 2005, UCLA physicists managed to fuse deuterium atoms on a desk by gently heating a small synthetic gem.
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In 1989, physics defied the barrier of the invisible when a scientist pushed 35 xenon atoms to spell out the letters 'IBM'.
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The historic experiment proving the vacuum is not empty, turning phantom quantum fluctuations into tangible light.