Science

1,000 atomic qubits and rising

Making quantum systems more scalable is one of the key requirements for the further development of quantum computers because the…

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A new design for quantum computers

Creating a quantum computer powerful enough to tackle problems we cannot solve with current computers remains a big challenge for…

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Environmental monitoring offers low-cost tool for typhoid fever surveillance

Researchers can accurately track where typhoid fever cases are highest by monitoring environmental samples for viruses called bacteriophages that specifically…

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The brain processes speech and its echo separately

Echoes can make speech harder to understand, and tuning out echoes in an audio recording is a notoriously difficulty engineering…

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What can bulls tell us about men?

Infertility is a widespread problem: worldwide, one in eight couples fail to fulfil their desire to have children within a…

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Evidence of geothermal activity within icy dwarf planets

A team co-led by Southwest Research Institute found evidence for hydrothermal or metamorphic activity within the icy dwarf planets Eris…

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Diving deeper into our oceans: Underwater drones open new doors for global coral reef research

At the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), scientists at the Marine Genomics Unit, in collaboration with the Japanese…

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First-ever atomic freeze-frame of liquid water

In an experiment akin to stop-motion photography, scientists have isolated the energetic movement of an electron while "freezing" the motion…

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A lighthouse in the Gobi desert

A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE explores the weight great fossil sites have on our understanding of…

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Targeting the microenvironment rather than a specific cell type could be the key to healing injured hearts

A groundbreaking scientific study published in Nature Cardiovascular Research has unveiled a remarkable discovery that may have far-reaching implications for…

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