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Science 2 June 2000:
Vol. 288. no. 5471, p. 1564
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5471.1564a
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QUANTUM PHYSICS:
Furtive Glances Trigger Radioactive Decay

Charles Seife

Common sense says you can't keep an atom's nucleus from decaying simply by looking at it. Quantum mechanics says you can. Now two Israeli physicists have come up with a way in which watching a nucleus might make it decay faster.

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