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In a milestone that brings quantum computing tangibly closer to large-scale practical use, scientists at Oxford University ...

Researchers at Oxford University have used an innovative approach to overcome the scalability problem of quantum computing, ...

Physicists have performed a groundbreaking simulation they say sheds new light on an elusive phenomenon that could determine the ultimate fate of the Universe.

Quantum physics underlies technologies from the laser to the smartphone. The International Year of Quantum marks a century of scientific developments.

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