After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived ... looking at its position in the periodic table,” Arnold said.

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Yet, in a dazzling experiment, a group of physicists has done just that. They’ve created a new kind of temporal structure ...

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