Quantum walks sound abstract, but they sit at the center of a very concrete race: who will harness quantum mechanics to solve problems that overwhelm today’s most powerful supercomputers. Instead of ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

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