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How to keep Light still

Harvard scientists report bringing pulses of light to a standstill in a cold sodium cloud

Harvard University scientists report bringing pulses of light to a standstill by trapping them in a cloud of super cold sodium atoms. Did all domestic horses come from one population or was it the idea of riding horses that spread? Oxfam is providing earthquake victims in El Salvador with a new type of rapid-response, self-build shelter using local materials. The unlikely history of arsenic.

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