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Google launches $5m prize to find actual uses for quantum computers

Existing quantum computers can solve some problems faster than any ordinary computer, but none of those problems has any practical use. Google and XPRIZE hope to change that

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Physics

Tiny magnet could help measure gravity on the quantum scale

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Cooling and storing aluminium cans

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Odd quantum property may let us chill things closer to absolute zero

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A single atom could drive a piston in a quantum engine

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Quantum quirk explains why carbon dioxide causes global warming

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Why string theory has been unfairly maligned - and how to test it

Physics

Why string theory has been unfairly maligned - and how to test it

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The Cheshire cat from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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Quantum Cheshire Cat effect may separate a particle from its momentum

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Theory of everything and geometry

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Why physicists are rethinking the route to a theory of everything

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Technology

Quantum computer uses a time crystal as a control dial

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Record broken for the coldest temperature reached by large molecules

Four-atom molecules glued together by microwaves have broken the record for being the most complicated molecule to reach temperatures just billionths of a degree away from absolute zero

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A bold new take on quantum theory could reveal how reality emerges

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Mind

Can quantum hints in the brain revive a radical consciousness theory?

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Physics

Scientists created a ‘giant quantum vortex’ that mimics a black hole

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First unhackable shopping transactions carried out on quantum internet

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