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I keep coming back to a strange idea: what if everything we know about quantum physics is already encoded inside a single atom? Not in a mystical sense, but in the very real way that one tiny system ...

A Game of the Elements, published Genius Games. In Periodic: A Game of the Elements, players collect sets of elements and advance their research by moving through the periodic table.

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KARIMNAGAR: Thirteen-year-old Kanaparthi Manvendra, a Class IX student trained at the Change Memory Academy in Karimnagar, has set a new world record by reciting all 118 elements of the Periodic Table ...

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