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Structured photons slow down in a vacuum

22 Jan 2015
Photograph of a burst of light
Easy does it: structured light slows in vacuum (Courtesy: iStockphoto/7io)
  The speed of light in a vacuum is 299,792,458 m s–1, right? Not necessarily, according t

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