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An employee among mining rigs at the Evobits crypto farm in Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Technology

Quantum computers could slash the energy use of cryptocurrencies

Mining cryptocurrencies like bitcoin could be done using quantum computers, cutting their electricity use by 90 per cent

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Technology

IBM quantum computer beat a supercomputer in a head-to-head test

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Extremely cold drop of helium can be levitated forever

Physics

Extremely cold drop of helium can be levitated forever

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Quantum computers could be built that are based on sound

Physics

Sound-based quantum computers could be built using chip-sized device

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The are thosands of small pieces of junk orbiting Earth (as well as thousands of satellites)

Physics

Quantum sensors could detect space debris from its gravitational pull

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Sunlight coming out of the optical fibre

Physics

Sunlight could cool an atom to its coldest possible temperature

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Technology

'Fluxonium’ is the longest lasting superconducting qubit ever

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Illustration of particles and their wave functions

Physics

Fundamental law of physics demonstrated using quantum objects

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Sound vibrations can encode and process data like quantum computers do

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Physics

AI can work out how quantum computers stack up to one another

Comparing the properties of qubits in different quantum computers is challenging, but AI can tell them apart even when the state of the qubits is 98 per cent similar

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Physics

Superconducting qubits have passed a key quantum test

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Physics

Why virtual particles don’t exist but do explain reality – for now

Features

Physics

To create a wormhole that doesn't collapse, you need exotic matter

Features

Physics

How we could discover quantum gravity without rebuilding space-time

Features

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