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Read more in Nature Communications.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">S. Truppe et al.\u00a0<em>Nature Communications<\/em>. Published October 15, 2013. doi: 10.1038\/ncomms3600<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33313,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"new_tags":[],"series":[],"subject":[2873],"class_list":["post-17996","research","type-research","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-physics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The physical constant just became more constant | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a recent study, physicists placed the strictest limit yet on how much the alpha could change with the density of nearby matter. 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