Last year, for the first time, scientists slowed light pulses to a halt and briefly stored them in a gas before permitting them to reemerge at normal speed (SN: 1/27/01, p. 52: Light Stands Still in Atom Clouds). Now, a team of researchers in the United States and Korea has achieved the same result with light in a solid.
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