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China said it has created a quantum processor no worse than the acclaimed Google Willow

A week ago, Google announced the creation of the world's most powerful quantum processor, Willow, with 105 superconducting qubits. This…

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Our brain works slower than a 50-year-old processor – scientists from Caltech measured the speed of human thought

Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) were able to estimate the speed of human thought - it was…

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Black holes turned out to be safer than scientists thought – stars and planets can stably “live” next to them

The location of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies appears to be destructive to everything nearby. However, astronomers…

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Ancient but pure: scientists dispute the youth of Saturn’s rings

NASA's Cassini probe, which reached Saturn in 2004, found the rings of this planet bright and clean. Scientists have decided…

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Earthly equipment abandoned on Mars will serve people even after failure

Earthly vehicles on the surface of Mars continue to serve science even after their failure. During landing, each of them…

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According to astronomers, the Sun owes us the “end of the world” – it can come at any moment

A recorded geomagnetic storm that significantly affected earthly civilization occurred only once - in 1859. But these are flowers compared…

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“James Webb” spotted a newborn twin of the Milky Way in the early Universe

«Where did the Milky Way come from?” scientists ask, to paraphrase Nestor the Chronicler. It is possible to reconstruct the…

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SEC resumes investigation into Neuralink

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week renewed its scrutiny of Elon Musk's startup Neuralink, which is developing…

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NASA recommends rethinking flight plans to Mars – the project cannot be raised without private investors

NASA has updated a package of documents on plans for the exploration of the Moon and Mars. These two celestial…

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NASA’s Juno probe revealed the “insides” of the solar system’s most volcanically active object.

Scientists have solved one of the main mysteries of the volcanic activity of Jupiter's moon Io. They determined the global…

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