04-10-2016 17:53 via news.yahoo.com

Nobel for work on 'exotic' matter explained with bagel

By Niklas Pollard and Ben Hirschler STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) - Three British-born scientists won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for revealing unusual states of matter, leading to advances in electronics and potentially helping work on future quantum computers. David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, who all now work at U.S. universities, share the prize for their discoveries on abrupt changes in the properties, or phases, of ultra-thin materials. The difficult-to-gra
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