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An MIT study reports that incoming cosmic rays can limit qubit’s performance, hindering advances in quantum computing. Credit: Christine Daniloff, MIT Quantum computers building underground or designing radiation-resistant qubits may be necessary, researchers find. The practices of quantum calculation depends on the integrity of the quantum bit, or qubit. Qubits, …

“Bill & Ted Face the Music” sounds like more of an account than it is. It would be unbearable to think that William Preston and Theodore Logan, the goofballs first embodied by Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves more than 30 years ago, could be candidates for cancellation. And although they …

When approved by the Federal Communications Commission Amazon’s plans for the Kuiper constellation, a plan to launch 3,236 low-earth satellites (LEO), the astronomy world raised a collective eyebrow. Low-Earth satellites move rapidly across the night sky like small stars – which can interfere with the types of long exposures astronomical …

More than ten years ago, Bruce Walker was working at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) when he was asked to see a patient who was claimed to be infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but who was OK , despite the fact that he never took medication. “Absolutely,” recalls Walker, …

Disinfectants are the frontline defense against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, on surfaces. But new research suggests there may be another tool that people can use: an insect repellent Citriodiol. Scientists from the UK’s Defense Science and Technology Laboratory have found in a preliminary study that Citriodiol may help …