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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, …

Buy and download a copy of this article Earlier this week, Boeing ordered airlines to take a batch of eight recently produced 787 Dreamliners out of service, causing them to be grounded immediately after the aircraft maker determined that a manufacturing problem was affecting an area of ​​the carbon fiber …

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 …

Digital reconstruction of the embryonic sauropod skull, with eyes added to show forward direction.Image: Kundrat et al. Current biology A rare egg fossil with an unbroken dinosaur suggests that baby sauropods were not miniature versions of the four-legged, long-necked hats that we all know and love, exhibit a unique set …

The only complete dinosaur skeleton ever discovered was in storage for 160 years before receiving the attention it deserved. Over the past three years, researchers have been compiling the skeleton and learning a lot about its history. The animal, a Scelidosaurus, was closely related to ankylosaurs. Over the centuries, researchers …