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We’ve figured out how to ensure quantum computers can be trusted

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We’ve figured out how to ensure quantum computers can be trusted

Quantum computers will be useless if we can't trust their calculations. Now, two teams have programmed quantum systems to detect their own errors

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Why Hawking's PhD thesis is now an internet-breaking inspiration

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Why Hawking's PhD thesis is now an internet-breaking inspiration

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Quantum code: why building the ultimate computer is the easy bit

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The dearth of women in tech is nothing to do with testosterone

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The most precise atomic clock ever made is a cube of quantum gas

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The Renaissance gambler who invented probability to win at cards

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Quantum computers could handle models that are too complex for us to run now

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This qubit redesign may make it easier to make quantum computers

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What if the diminutive electron isn’t as small as it gets?

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First underwater entanglement could lead to unhackable comms

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Atomic Legoland: How to build wonder stuff from the atom up

Miracle materials that would supercharge clean energy are on the cards now we can play with individual atoms. We just need to work out how to arrange them

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Quantum gravity detector will use atom clouds to survey for oil

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Time to bust the myth that Ada Lovelace was an overhyped aristo

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Quantum cheques could be a forgery-free way to move money

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Mary Somerville: Queen of 19th-century science

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