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Google's quantum computer flunks landmark speed test

In its first head-to-head test against a PC, the D-Wave Two showed no quantum speed boost – but it is being used in blink-detection and planet-hunting

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Spin: The quantum twist coming to a computer near you

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Spin: The quantum twist coming to a computer near you

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Breaking relativity: Celestial signals defy Einstein

Space

Breaking relativity: Celestial signals defy Einstein

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2013 review: Top ten breakthroughs in physical science

Physics

2013 review: Top ten breakthroughs in physical science

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All spruced up: Breeding a better Christmas tree

Life

All spruced up: Breeding a better Christmas tree

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Goodwill hunting: Random ants of kindness

Life

Goodwill hunting: Random ants of kindness

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Why whisky makes you frisky (and gin makes you sin)

Humans

Why whisky makes you frisky (and gin makes you sin)

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Life

Chocolab: The secret recipe for low-fat chocolate

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Rude awakenings: How swearing made us human

Life

Rude awakenings: How swearing made us human

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Kalahari trackers who read ice-age life in footprints

Life

Kalahari trackers who read ice-age life in footprints

Generations of archaeologists puzzled over ice-age footprints in French caves – but these three men can read them like a book

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Physics

Kissing by numbers: Party like it's n = 1999

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¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ 2013 holiday quiz

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Wired Wild West: Cowpokes chatted on fence-wire phones

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Earth

The great white lie: What snowflakes really look like

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