The dream of creating game-changing quantum computers—supermachines that encode information in single atoms rather than ...

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Researchers have demonstrated that the theoretically optimal scaling for magic state distillation—a critical bottleneck in ...

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At 16, Viau watched wildfires destroy his family's homes. At 21, his AI wildfire invention responds faster than NASA.

The engineering of optically synthesized magnetic fields allows neutral atoms to emulate charged behavior, paving the way for ...

Thanksgiving traffic might look much more as sustainable travel in the not-too-distant future which can improve climate ...

In the late 1960s, a group of graduate students at MIT took on an extraordinary challenge: figuring out how to stop an ...