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How to see impossible colors

What does "reddish green" look like? Not brown, not olive - an actual color that's simultaneously red and green the way cyan ...
Scientists have demonstrated that atoms can exhibit wave-like behavior, challenging long-held assumptions that experiments of this nature were impossible and opening new doors in quantum physics. The ...
A classic quantum experiment that shows how particles can behave like waves has been demonstrated with atoms for the first time, something that was thought to be impossible. The finding could be used ...
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have discovered a brand new color. Extraordinary and seemingly impossible, during an experiment in which researchers had laser pulses fired into ...