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Hippie days: How a handful of countercultural scientists changed the course of physics in the 1970s

Every Friday afternoon for several years in the 1970s, a group of underemployed quantum physicists met at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, in Northern California, to talk about a subject so peculiar it was rarely discussed in mainstream science: entanglement. Did subatomic particles influence each other from a distance? What were the implications?

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Quantum mapmakers complete first voyage through spin liquid

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Oxford University have mapped a state of matter called 'quantum spin liquid', whose existence was proposed in the 1970s but which has only been observed recently.

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Sneak Peek: Chichele Presidential Lodge, Zambia

Sanctuary Retreats reopened its Chichele Presidential Lodge in Zambia in February. Originally built for the nation’s former President Kenneth Kaunda in the 1970s, the hilltop hotel features 10 newly refurbished Victorian-style suites, each with its own veranda overlooking the Luangwa valley and a swimming pool. Located in the South Luangwa ...

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