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Encrypt your data with random quantum weirdness

Physics

Encrypt your data with random quantum weirdness

Random number generators are key to data encryption, but it’s impossible to prove that most truly work. A new one uses quantum laws to guarantee randomness

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I'm building a machine that breaks the rules of reality

Physics

I'm building a machine that breaks the rules of reality

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A Bristlecone chip being installed by Research 51�� Marissa Giustina at the Quantum AI Lab in Santa Barbara

Physics

Google's 72-qubit chip is the largest yet

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Physics

Unbreakable: The race to protect our secrets from quantum hacks

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Green laser beam in darkness passing through optical equipment

Physics

Quantum trick lets one particle send messages two ways at once

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Three photons stick together to create a new form of light

Physics

Three photons stick together to create a new form of light

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Quantum time machine: How the future can change what happens now

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Quantum time machine: How the future can change what happens now

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Quantum computing research

Physics

Is the quantum computer revolution really just five years away?

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Shrinking black holes avoid paradox by oozing hidden information

Space

Shrinking black holes avoid paradox by oozing hidden information

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These are the worst ready-made sandwiches for the climate

Earth

These are the worst ready-made sandwiches for the climate

Producing ready-made sandwiches can generate twice as much carbon dioxide as simply making them at home, and one particular filling is egregiously bad

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Technology

Clever maths will stop hackers spying on the quantum internet

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Humans

Survey reveals extreme gender bias plagues STEM – it must change

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Humans

In 2018, science needs its own version of the #MeToo campaign

Culture

Space

Parallel universes could solve a big problem with black holes

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