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To most of us, watching a chess game is about as fun as sitting through a lecture on quantum mechanics. So you might ...

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When you want to write a haiku for Stephen Hawking, where do you start? The guy is one of the greatest scientific ...

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The central principle of quantum mechanics - that the act of measuring a quantum object actually changes it - has ...

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Much the same way that light is both a particle and a wave, Mitt Romney is both a moderate and a conservative, all ...

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When quantum computers eventually reach larger scales, they'll probably remain pretty precious resources, locked ...

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