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Setting aside the insane upheaval going on i n US science, this year’s Physics World Live series will give you a sense of ...

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Moscow State University (MSU) has partnered with Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation for the deployment of a 72-qubit ...

All three winners of today’s 2025 Nobel Prize in physics are faculty at the University of California. The Nobel Prize committee honored John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the ...