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The humble smiley face emoticon, now a staple of online communication, owes its origin to a physics joke that didn't hit ...

Quantum physics is the study of matter and energy at its most fundamental level. A central tenet of quantum physics is that energy comes in indivisible packets called quanta. Quanta behave very ...