'Squeezed' light exhibits smaller quantum fluctuations than no light at all. Localized squeezed regions have now been produced along an infrared light wave and probed with unprecedented time resolution. See Letter p.376
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Bellini, M. Quiet moments in time. Nature 541, 292–293 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/541292a
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