Friction normally needs two surfaces rubbing together. Physicists just proved light can do the job all by itself.
A research team in Bochum, Germany has unexpectedly found that light can slow down movements in the nanoworld. This is due to quantum friction, a phenomenon that has been poorly understood until now.
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