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Published online 10 October 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news001012-5
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Islands in the swing
Philip Ball finds out how two ticking clocks can stop each other dead.
Clocks, cells and other oscillating systems can bring one another to a halt, a team of physicists in India announces in the journal Physical Review Letters1. This could have implications from medicine to information technology.
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