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Congratulations are in order for China: by launching the world’s first quantum communications satellite, the country has achieved an interesting — if somewhat difficult to explain — milestone in space ...

Having entered the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics in 1983 under the mentorship of Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

For students who are interested in pursuing a science, technology, engineering or mathematics major, the SAT physics subject test is an excellent opportunity to demonstrate interest and ability in the ...

Chinese scientists have just set a record in quantum physics. For the first time, pairs of entangled photons have been beamed from a satellite in orbit to two receiving stations almost 1,500 miles ...

Dark matter is thought to outnumber regular matter by a factor of five to one – so why can’t we find the stuff? A new study proposes looking for it from space, using a satellite containing a ...

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Free falling Artist's impression of the MICROSCOPE satellite. (Courtesy: CNES) The equality of inertial and gravitational mass central to Einstein’s general theory of relativity has been confirmed at ...