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Scientists crack 58-year-old quantum mystery

Australian engineers have accidentally solved a 58-year old mystery in quantum science.

As described in the journal , they have worked out how to do what Nobel laureate Nicolaas Bloembergen first suggested in 1961 but no-one has yet cracked: control the nucleus

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