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    • Professor Steven Prawer

    Director, Melbourne Materials Institute, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne

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    Sciences & Technology

    A brief history of Quantum

    The quantum revolution is coming, and it’s taken some big leaps of thinking from some of the biggest minds of the 20th century to get us to this point

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    Sciences & Technology

    Sounds like science fiction

    Some of the technological innovations of 2017 sound more like sci-fi, but according to the brains behind a few of them, the future is still full of surprises

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    Sciences & Technology

    Photon teleportation: Less ‘beam me up’, more 007

    The recent beaming of light particles between Earth and a satellite is a significant development in the mind-boggling field of quantum physics, but unless you have a laser telescope handy its practical applications are limited

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