physics
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First Look At ‘Sycamore,’ Google’s Quantum Computer
Between the mountainous and coastal vistas of Goleta, California, sits an unassuming office on the side of a building next to the freeway. It could belong to any Southern California company; workers sit in grey cubicles beneath fluorescent lights, and there’s a rack to hold employees’ bikes and surfboards. But at those desks are physicists…
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Physicists Win Nobel Prize For Finding Exoplanet Around A Sun-Like Star And For Helping Develop Theory Of The Universe
The 2019 Physics Nobel Prize will be awarded half to James Peebles of Princeton University, and half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of the University of Geneva in Switzerland, for theoretical work improving our understanding of the universe and for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star, respectively.
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Why Xkcd Creator Randall Munroe Wrote The World’s Most Extreme ‘How To’ Book
While waiting for your flight to board, you look at your phone and realise its battery is at 1 per cent. You look around but can’t find a power outlet. There might be practical solutions to this problem. Or, you could follow Randall Munroe’s instructions and attach a paddle wheel to an escalator in order…
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A New Experiment Narrows Potential Properties Of Dark Energy Particle
An experiment in the United Kingdom has failed to find evidence of a particle meant to explain most of the universe’s mass. But the search isn’t over.