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A conference on the future of the UK space sector makes stunningly little mention of how proposed cuts to NASA funding might affect it ...

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

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CP Snow’s classic The Two Cultures lecture, published in book form in 1959, is the usual go-to reference when exploring the ...

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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 ...

New research explains previous contradictory observations in terms of “topological blocking”, which may occur in other ...