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On Tuesday, IBM released its plans for building a system that should push quantum computing into entirely new territory: a system that can both perform
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Scientists have discovered that under the right conditions, a gummy bear-like ball can roll down a vertical wall all by itself—upending a core assumption in
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Everyone in quantum computing agrees that error correction will be the key to doing a broad range of useful calculations. But early every company in
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It’s a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month. In the past, we’ve
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The Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara, California, serves military space launch missions as well as launches for NASA and commercial entities like SpaceX.
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