Physics Nobel rewards ‘spooky science’ of entanglement

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics rewards research into quantum mechanics – the science that describes nature at the smallest scales.

The award goes to Frenchman Alain Aspect, American John Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger.

Their work should pave the way to a new generation of powerful computers and telecommunications systems that are impossible to break into.

The men will share prize money of 10 million Swedish krona (£800,000).

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