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We’ve figured out how to ensure quantum computers can be trusted

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We’ve figured out how to ensure quantum computers can be trusted

Quantum computers will be useless if we can't trust their calculations. Now, two teams have programmed quantum systems to detect their own errors

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Why Hawking's PhD thesis is now an internet-breaking inspiration

Physics

Why Hawking's PhD thesis is now an internet-breaking inspiration

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quantum artwork

Physics

Quantum code: why building the ultimate computer is the easy bit

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Mussels

Life

Mussel-inspired plastic could make self-repairing body armour

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Girls with binary code

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The dearth of women in tech is nothing to do with testosterone

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Atomic clock

Physics

The most precise atomic clock ever made is a cube of quantum gas

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Shape-shifting origami robot swaps bodies to roll, swim or walk

Technology

Shape-shifting origami robot swaps bodies to roll, swim or walk

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whisky bottles

Technology

Fighting fakery: How to make products immune to counterfeiting

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Dual image

Technology

Two-colour pixels let you draw pair of images in the same space

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Cardano

Physics

The Renaissance gambler who invented probability to win at cards

Jerome Cardano's gambling obsession spurred him to invent two of the most important theories in maths, laying the foundations of quantum physics

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Technology

Plastic cubes injected into the body could replace booster shots

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This qubit redesign may make it easier to make quantum computers

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Physics

What if the diminutive electron isn’t as small as it gets?

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Technology

First underwater entanglement could lead to unhackable comms

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