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The hope for quantum computers is that the devices will be able to solve complex tasks such as predicting how chemicals react or cracking encrypted text. One of the main reasons that the machines are ...

Leggett later switched to theoretical condensed-matter physics, and rapidly made the subject of macroscopic quantum phenomena his own. Only eight years after his PhD, he created a remarkably intuitive ...

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Minuscule particles with the ability to cross hard-to-penetrate barriers can be loaded with drug treatments to target intractable diseases.

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Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s, lowering their chances of getting ...

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A programme that offers scans to smokers between the ages of 55 and 74 detects a large number of early-stage lung tumours.

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In these experiments, people who interacted with a sycophantic chatbot were more likely to say that they were in the right ...