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Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing
World’s first quantum chip powered by new Topological Core architecture will realize quantum computers capable of solving ...
NextBigFuture18h
Microsoft Majorana 1 Chip Has 8 Qubits Right Now with a Roadmap to 1 Million Raw Qubits
Microsoft team behind the recent breakthrough in physics and quantum computing demonstrated by the new Majorana 1 chip, ...
Innovation17h
The Aussie connection to Microsoft’s quantum leap
Australian research into topoconductors was crucial to the development of a groundbreaking new type of chip that Microsoft ...
What can theoretical physics teach us about knitting?
The practice of purposely looping thread to create intricate knit garments and blankets has existed for millennia. Though its ...
New Scientist7h
Time can move both forwards and backwards at the quantum scale
Physicists may be using mathematical assumptions in many situations that forbid time from moving backwards – but that isn’t necessarily a reflection of quantum reality ...
Self-imaging of structured light in cylindrical systems unveils a new form of space-time duality
Photonics researchers from Tampere University, Finland, and Kastler-Brossel Laboratory, France, have demonstrated how ...
This Strange Motion Keeps Appearing Everywhere – Even in High-Energy Collisions
Particles in high-energy nuclear collisions move in a way that follows a pattern known as Lévy walks, a motion found across ...
Crystals can’t bend – or can they? New research sheds light on elusive ‘flexible crystals’
Crystals are supposed to be hard and brittle. But when we make them bendy, they help reveal the secrets of how elastic ...
Colliding plasma ejections from the Sun generate huge geomagnetic storms − studying them will help scientists monitor future space weather
The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are ...