In a groundbreaking breakthrough, engineers have figured out how to make atomic nuclei “talk” inside silicon chips. This discovery solves one of the biggest hurdles in scaling quantum computers by ...

The research on talking atoms was published on September 18 in the journal Science, and is an important step towards building large-scale quantum computers ...

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Thousands of “harmful” tiny plastic particles could be lurking in vegetable roots, experts warn. Researchers at the University of Plymouth found that particles found in the soil can be absorbed into ...

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Plastic nanoparticles have been found in the edible parts of vegetables for the first time, raising fresh concerns about plastic pollution affecting the human food chain. Scientists at the University ...

Knowable Magazine reports that neutrinos may help explain the universe's missing antimatter, shedding light on matter-antimatter imbalance.

Neutrino lasers: It’s an idea that many physicists didn’t see coming. At first glance, physics suggests that it would be impossible to make a laser of neutrinos, famously elusive subatomic particles.

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