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'Red matter' superconductor could transform electronics – if it works

Researchers have long attempted to produce a superconductor that works at room temperature and at a relatively low pressure. A team now claims that its material, dubbed "red matter", has these properties

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Antineutrinos collide with protons inside the detector which creates positrons that move through water followed by a blue glow.

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Antimatter neutrinos detected from a nuclear reactor 240 km away

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A tightly arranged collection of copper and silver-colored metallic tubes and cylinders comprise the inside of a quantum computer

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Quantum computers that use 'cat qubits' may make fewer errors

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The Great Pyramid at Giza, Egypt, has a hidden corridor that has now been mapped

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Hidden corridor in Egypt’s Great Pyramid mapped with cosmic rays

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Why uncertainty is part of science - especially quantum mechanics

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This new version of quantum theory is even stranger than the original

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This new version of quantum theory is even stranger than the original

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Atomic clock components sit in a laboratory setting, a blue light laser shines through a metal chamber, partially obscured by a pair of lenses

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Most accurate molecular clock yet uses extremely cold strontium

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Google's Sycamore quantum processor

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Google’s quantum computer simulation of a wormhole may not have worked

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A quantum computer at London-based start-up, Quantum Motion

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From qubits to quantum superposition: How quantum computers work

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AWAKE helicon plasma cell R&D lab Date: 14-10-2019 Campagne de tests sur la cellule plasma helicon prototype d?AWAKE, en collaboration avec IPP-Greifswald, University of Wisconsin et EPFL-SPC Photograph: Ordan, Julien Marius Keywords: Experiments and Collaborations; AWAKE; Plasma; EPFL; helicon; IPP-Greifswald; University of Wisconsin Note: General Photo Conditions of Use ? 2019-2023 CERN Accessing copyrighted material

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The CERN particle accelerator that will breathe new life into physics

A new breed of collider, called plasma wakefield accelerators, can study fundamental physics in new ways by doing something the Large Hadron Collider cannot do: colliding electrons

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Quantum computers could run programs that should be too big for them

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Strange water wave can bounce a droplet thousands of times

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Quantum Bullsh*t review: Time to save quantum theory for science

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The hunt for dark matter: The universe's mysterious gravitational glue

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