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Quantum chip of a Quantum System Two quantum computer is on display at the opening of the first quantum data center of the computer company IBM

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Quantum neural network may be able to cheat the uncertainty principle

Calculations show that injecting randomness into a quantum neural network could help it determine properties of quantum objects that are otherwise fundamentally hard to access

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El Capitan, the National Nuclear Security Administration's first exascale computer,

Technology

Some quantum computers might need more power than supercomputers

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The best new popular science books of January 2026

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The best new popular science books of January 2026

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Technology

A strange kind of quantumness may be key to quantum computers' success

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Physics

Ghostly particles might just break our understanding of the universe

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Physics

A controversial experiment threatened to kill the multiverse in 2025

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illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity, a key component of SLAC's LCLS-II X-ray laser

Physics

Inside world's ultimate X-ray machine before it becomes more powerful

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Quantum computing

Technology

'Spectacular' progress has been made towards useful quantum computers

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Life

A ghostly glow was seen emanating from living things in 2025

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Technology

Quantum computers turned out to be more useful than expected in 2025

Rapid advances in the kind of problems that quantum computers can tackle suggest that they are closer than ever to becoming useful tools of scientific discovery

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51¶¯Âþs build a window into the fourth dimension

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Physics

Qubits break quantum limit to encode information for longer

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Mind

Test your brain on these mind-bending scientific riddles

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Physics

How 3 imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature

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