The US National Institute of Standards and Technology, which is tasked with developing standards for encryption that can ...

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With an investment of AU$1 billion, PsiQuantum is planning to build a photonic quantum computer with a million qubits, far ...

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When the experimental XB-1 aircraft achieved supersonic speeds on a test flight, it did not create a disruptive sonic boom – ...

Stripping carbon dioxide out of the ocean could be much more efficient than capturing it from the air. Researchers are hoping ...

Fears that other nations could gain an advantage are holding back the development of quantum computers, with export controls and other restrictions making it harder for researchers to work across bord ...

Hundreds of quantum computing firms around the world are racing to commercialise these once-exotic devices, but the jury is still out on who is going to pull ahead and produce a machine that actually ...