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Could a niche 80s technology be the key to better quantum computers?

Superconducting computing circuits were briefly heralded as the future of computing in the 1980s. Columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan visits a quantum chip foundry where one company is betting this technology’s second act will revolutionise quantum computers

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Chemistry

The world’s most elusive colour is worth billions – if we can find it

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Technology

Breaking encryption with a quantum computer just got 10 times easier

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Two quantum computers

Physics

Loophole found that makes quantum cloning possible

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Physics

The mystery of nuclear 'magic numbers' has finally been resolved

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Physics

Backwards heat shows laws of thermodynamics may need a quantum update

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The experiments that could finally explain gravity

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The experiments that could finally explain gravity

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Time crystals could be used to build accurate quantum clocks

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Time crystals could be used to build accurate quantum clocks

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Physics

Physicists warn of 'catastrophic' impact from UK science cuts

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Technology

Fast-charging quantum battery built inside a quantum computer

An experiment with superconducting qubits opens the door to determining whether quantum devices could be less energetically costly if they are powered by quantum batteries

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Physics

Record-breaking quantum simulator could unlock new materials

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Physics

The weird rules of temperature get even stranger in the quantum realm

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Nobel laureate says he'll build world’s most powerful quantum computer

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Physics

The universe may be hiding a fundamentally unknowable quantum secret

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