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El Capitan, the National Nuclear Security Administration's first exascale computer,

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Some quantum computers might need more power than supercomputers

A preliminary analysis suggests that industrially useful quantum computers designs come with a broad spectrum of energy footprints, including some larger than the most powerful existing supercomputers

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The best new popular science books of January 2026

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The best new popular science books of January 2026

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Technology

A strange kind of quantumness may be key to quantum computers' success

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Physics

Ghostly particles might just break our understanding of the universe

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Physics

A controversial experiment threatened to kill the multiverse in 2025

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illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity, a key component of SLAC's LCLS-II X-ray laser

Physics

Inside world's ultimate X-ray machine before it becomes more powerful

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Quantum computing

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'Spectacular' progress has been made towards useful quantum computers

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Life

A ghostly glow was seen emanating from living things in 2025

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Technology

Quantum computers turned out to be more useful than expected in 2025

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ÒÁÈ˾þÃs build a window into the fourth dimension

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ÒÁÈ˾þÃs build a window into the fourth dimension

The concept of a fourth dimension is so elusive and mysterious that many of us find it almost impossible to comprehend. But could an additional layer of spatial reality truly exist?

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Physics

Qubits break quantum limit to encode information for longer

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Mind

Test your brain on these mind-bending scientific riddles

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Physics

How 3 imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature

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Physics

Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits

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