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China's quantum communications satellite launches

Space

China launches world's first quantum communications satellite

The Quantum Science Satellite will test quantum entanglement over record distances and could lead to a global network for secure quantum communications

News

LHC-style supercolliders are entering a make or break phase

Physics

LHC-style supercolliders are entering a make or break phase

Comment

Man peers at dangling circuitry

Technology

Quantum computing race heats up as trapped ions rival microchips

News

Artwork showing a cube bearing circuitry and with light beams apparently playing on it

Technology

Error fix for long-lived qubits brings quantum computers nearer

News

quantum artwork 1

Physics

Collapse: Has quantum theory's greatest mystery been solved?

Features

What appears to be the same cat entwined in seven different ways with a box

Physics

Seven ways to skin Schrödinger’s cat

Features

Carlo Rovelli

Physics

You can touch the heart of physics without doing the hard bits

Features

Ions held in place by a laser

Technology

Record number of ions get entangled together in a quantum trap

News

A tabby cat's face peeking out of a box, green eye

Physics

Schrödinger's cat alive and dead even after you saw it in half

News

free will

Physics

Physics killed free will and time's flow. We need them back

Modern science has taken a wrong turn – and it's all because real numbers aren't real at all, argues quantum physicist Nicolas Gisin

Features

Space

Gravitational waves: Your cheat sheet on the find of the decade

Features

Technology

Try your hand at programming IBM's online quantum computer

News

Physics

Beech marten halts LHC after chewing on a power cable

News

Physics

That's odd: Why is gravity so weak?

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