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Scientists at Kyushu University in Japan have pulled off something that sounds almost like a physics magic trick taking ordinary visible sunlight and converting it into ultraviolet light using a newly designed solid-state material. The material works by combining the energy of two low-energy photons to produce a single, higher-energy UV photon, a process called photon upconversion.

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