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Technology

D-Wave says its quantum computers can solve otherwise impossible tasks

Quantum computing firm D-Wave says its machines are the first to achieve "computational supremacy" by solving a practically useful problem that would otherwise take millions of years on an ordinary supercomputer

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Technology

Google launches $5m prize to find actual uses for quantum computers

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Physics

Tiny magnet could help measure gravity on the quantum scale

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Cooling and storing aluminium cans

Physics

Odd quantum property may let us chill things closer to absolute zero

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Physics

A single atom could drive a piston in a quantum engine

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Physics

Quantum quirk explains why carbon dioxide causes global warming

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Why string theory has been unfairly maligned - and how to test it

Physics

Why string theory has been unfairly maligned - and how to test it

Features

The Cheshire cat from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Physics

Quantum Cheshire Cat effect may separate a particle from its momentum

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Theory of everything and geometry

Physics

Why physicists are rethinking the route to a theory of everything

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Technology

Quantum computer uses a time crystal as a control dial

Making a strange state of matter called a time crystal inside a quantum computer helped researchers stabilise a fragile quantum state inspired by Schrödinger’s cat

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Physics

Record broken for the coldest temperature reached by large molecules

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Physics

A bold new take on quantum theory could reveal how reality emerges

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Mind

Can quantum hints in the brain revive a radical consciousness theory?

Features

Physics

51¶¯Âþs created a ‘giant quantum vortex’ that mimics a black hole

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