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Who funds quantum research?
An odd little detail in a Physics World piece on Microsoft’s claim to have made a working topological qubit: Regardless of the debate about the results and how they have been announced, researchers are supportive of the efforts at Microsoft to produce a … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial intelligence, Bruce Schneier, Drew Weissman, drug development, Katalin Karikó, Majorana 1, Microsoft Research, mRNA vaccines, Nathan Sanders, Normal Eisen, Physical Review B, Physics World, public AI, public quantum, quantum computing, quantum technologies, topological qubit, Winfried Hensinger
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Majorana 1, science journalism, and other things
While I have many issues with how the Nobel Prizes are put together as an institution, the scientific achievements they have revealed have been some of the funnest concepts I’ve discovered in science, including the clever ways in which scientists … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexei Kitaev, Ben Feringa, Cassandra Willyard, curiosity, curiosity-driven research, David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, Fraser Stoddart, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, John Kosterlitz, Majorana 1, Majorana fermions, Microsoft, National Science Day, Nobel Prizes, quantum computing, science journalism, The Hindu, topological order
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