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Fermilab’s SQMS Center is on a mission to realize inherently scalable “qudit-based” quantum computing and quantum ...

The Japanese firm ispace has suffered another setback after its second attempt to land on the Moon ended in failure yesterday. The Hakuto-R Mission 2, also known as Resilience, failed to touch down ...

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By adapting mathematical techniques used in particle physics, researchers in Germany have developed an approach that could ...

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Scientists who switch research fields suffer a drop in the impact of their new work – a so-called “pivot penalty”. That is according to a new analysis of scientific papers and patents, which finds ...

Lab scale: Members of Ashley Bucsek’s group can now use three-dimensional X-ray diffraction to study polycrystalline materials on campus, whereas they would previously only have been able to do this ...