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An ultrafast diffractive imaging technique that reconstructs an object's structure from a single short X-ray pulse is an important step towards the superlative spatial and temporal resolution promised by next-generation free-electron lasers.
Quantum information is an active area of physics, but is it also one of long-lasting significance? Judging by the mere elegance of a new approach for handling imperfections in quantum registers, the answer must be 'yes'.