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The coldest place in the universe is a lab on Earth.
Physicists have chilled atoms billions of times colder than deep space.
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Why it sounds fake
What most people think
Space is the coldest place there is; nothing on Earth could beat it.
What is actually true
A lab beats deep space, and not narrowly: by a factor of billions.
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