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BT and Toshiba have deployed an 'unhackable' quantum network that uses streams of photons to encrypt sensitive communications. A trial of the network, which is the first of its kind in the UK, will ...

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Scientists shined a little light, literally, on the perplexing processes that govern atoms, in a new experiment that showed the effect of bouncing one photon of light off an atom. Atoms and particles ...