The word coopetition, oxymoronically yoking cooperation with competition, presents a social paradox as exploitable. Quantum-entanglement experiments, spookily yoking separated photons, present a physics paradox as exploitable. The latest such investigation, announced by Chinese scientists in a US publication, illustrates coopetition’s routineness in science—even though much of the media coverage emphasizes the competition over the cooperation.

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