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Record-breaking number of qubits entangled in a quantum computer

A group of 51 superconducting qubits have been entangled inside a quantum computer, not just in pairs but in a complex system that entangles each qubit to every other one

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Quantum superposition or quantum entanglement concept illustration. Superposition is the ability of a quantum system to be in multiple states at the same time until it is measured. Quantum entanglement is a physical phenomenon that occurs when pairs or groups of particles are generated or interact in ways such that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently.

Physics

Rethinking reality: Is the entire universe a single quantum object?

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A simulation of gravity showing curved space-time. The ball represents the sun and is resting on a sheet of plastic that stretches under its weight. The curved sheet of plastic demonstrates the way a gravity curves space.

Physics

The massive problem of trying to fully explain what mass actually is

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Technology

Microsoft says its weird new particle could improve quantum computers

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Technology

IBM quantum computer beat a supercomputer in a head-to-head test

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Couples are less likely to physically collide with others than friends

Technology

Couples collide with fewer people on walks than pairs of friends do

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Snakes are quite quantum, mathematically speaking

Life

Wiggly worms and quantum objects follow surprisingly similar equations

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Extremely cold drop of helium can be levitated forever

Physics

Extremely cold drop of helium can be levitated forever

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The are thosands of small pieces of junk orbiting Earth (as well as thousands of satellites)

Physics

Quantum sensors could detect space debris from its gravitational pull

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Sunlight coming out of the optical fibre

Physics

Sunlight could cool an atom to its coldest possible temperature

Sunlight transmitted through an optical fibre could be used to help cool a single charged atom to a temperature only a few millionths of a degree above absolute zero

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Space

Lab imitations of the unobservable cosmos can be genuinely insightful

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Space

Questions I dread: How did the universe begin, and what is space-time?

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Physics

Fundamental law of physics demonstrated using quantum objects

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Physics

How we could discover quantum gravity without rebuilding space-time

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