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Katherine Skipper visits the Cavendish laboratory in Cambridge to catch a quantum light source that’s touring Europe for the International Year of Quantum
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More than 90 papers from China have been recognized with a top-cited paper award for 2024 from IOP Publishing
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Tushna Commissariat recounts a fascinating chat with Roger Penrose
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A tongue-in-cheek e-mail exchange with 1973 Nobel Prize winner Brian Josephson shows that for some laureates, scientific rigour extends to ordinary life, too
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