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Can light itself cast a shadow? It may sound like a philosophical riddle, but researchers have found that under certain ...

Edtech unicorn Physics Wallah said Thursday it has named a former Blinkit executive as its chief finance officer (CFO), ...

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A diagram illustrating how the experimental setup worked The effect works thanks to some intriguing optical physics. Where ...

A research team in China has held atoms in a state of quantum superposition for 23 minutes, suggesting tantalizing new ...

NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...

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