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It’s the weirdest thing: quantum theory works incredibly well in practice. It powers devices ranging from MRI machines to lasers and the very computer you’re reading this on. But even after 100 years, ...

For the first time, physicists at CERN have coaxed an antiproton — a mirror twin of the matter that makes up our world — into ...

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