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University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) researchers have explored a "quantum-inspired" technique to make the "ones" and "zeroes" for classical computer memory ...

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Three-nucleon force affects nuclear stability, impacting element formation and stellar evolution. The force increases energy ...

The short answer is; no. We will never see atoms using visible light, simply because the wavelength of visible light (around 400 to 700 nanometers) is larger than the size of an atom (around 0.1 to ...

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Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have synthesized a Bi5⁻ ring, a molecule with five bismuth atoms, ...

A technology once feared too error-prone to underlie a quantum computer is hitting the big time.