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Scientists are engineering electromagnetic waves to retrace their temporal paths, a breakthrough in wave physics. This 'time reversal' doesn't involve historical travel but reverses a wave's sequence, ...

Physicists have accomplished a quantum leap in light research. They have managed to capture the behavior of extremely short laser pulses during focusing by means of very high spatial and temporal ...