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Xanadu Quantum Technologies has built a prototype of the world’s first universal photonic quantum computer. Dubbed Aurora, ...

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I recently read a feature interview in Quanta Magazine of physicist Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University who studies the formation of protons and neutrons ...

Researchers hypothesize a fifth force of nature that could explain the intricate relationship between dark matter and dark ...

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In the first study of its kind at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the CMS collaboration has tested whether top quarks adhere to Einstein’s special theory of relativity. Along with quantum mechanics, ...

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