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The ALICE Collaboration is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for transforming lead into gold for a fraction of a second and exposing the strange physics that goes on inside the Large Hadron ...

In 1971, graduate student Stuart Freedman and postdoctoral fellow John Clauser took over a room in the sub-basement of Birge Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, and built an experiment ...

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Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. A paper on the experiment titled "Experimental protocol for testing the mass-energy-information equivalence principle" has been published in the journal ...