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Speed from a speckle

Shining laser through a composite material, in this case a plastic air filter, produces a speckle pattern with areas of high (red) and low (blue) brightness. Scientists have worked out how fast light travels through such a material by varying pressure on it and measuring changes in the speckles. Credit: Sanli Faez/FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, AMOLF

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