Scientists have long been fascinated by how light interacts with matter. At the heart of this curiosity are photons—particles that carry light—as they pass through different materials. When photons ...

In a quantum experiment, scientists observed photons spending ‘negative time’ in a cloud of rubidium atoms. This is likely caused by the fact that photons move faster when exciting these atoms than ...

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