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University of Illinois Physics Professor Paul Kwiat and members of his research group have developed a new tool for precision measurement at the nanometer scale in scenarios where background noise and ...

Everyone knows the number for the speed of light — but almost nobody knows the uncomfortable truth behind it. Measuring light in one direction requires perfectly synchronized clocks, and that’s the ...