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Titan and Saturn as captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft

Space

Quantum effects could be key to the chemistry of life on Titan

Saturn’s moon Titan is too cold for many types of chemical reactions, but quantum tunnelling could present a loophole that would allow reactions that are crucial for life

News

Google's Sycamore quantum computer

Technology

Quantum computers may finally have their first real practical use

News

Cosmic Tumbles, Quantum Leaps review: Embodying Schrodinger's cat

Physics

Cosmic Tumbles, Quantum Leaps review: Embodying Schrodinger's cat

Culture

Space

How to understand wormholes and their weird quantum effects

News

A tightly arranged collection of copper and silver-colored metallic tubes and cylinders comprise the inside of a quantum computer

Physics

Quantum computers that use 'cat qubits' may make fewer errors

News

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Physics

Why uncertainty is part of science - especially quantum mechanics

Comment

This new version of quantum theory is even stranger than the original

Physics

This new version of quantum theory is even stranger than the original

Features

Atomic clock components sit in a laboratory setting, a blue light laser shines through a metal chamber, partially obscured by a pair of lenses

Physics

Most accurate molecular clock yet uses extremely cold strontium

News

Quantum tunelling can allow particles to pass through barriers

Chemistry

Strange quantum event happens once every 10 billion chances

News

Google's Sycamore quantum processor

Physics

Google’s quantum computer simulation of a wormhole may not have worked

The first simulation of a wormhole on a quantum computer made headlines, but a new study brings into question whether it was an accurate representation

News

Technology

Google says error correction will lead to useful quantum computers

News

Video

From qubits to quantum superposition: How quantum computers work

Video

Physics

Quantum computers could run programs that should be too big for them

News

Physics

Quantum Bullsh*t review: Time to save quantum theory for science

Culture

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