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The are thosands of small pieces of junk orbiting Earth (as well as thousands of satellites)

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Quantum sensors could detect space debris from its gravitational pull

Devices based on quantum properties of very cold and very small crystals could be mounted on satellites and sense space debris that could collide with them

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Sunlight coming out of the optical fibre

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Sunlight could cool an atom to its coldest possible temperature

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'Fluxonium’ is the longest lasting superconducting qubit ever

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Illustration of particles and their wave functions

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Fundamental law of physics demonstrated using quantum objects

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Sound vibrations can encode and process data like quantum computers do

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AI can work out how quantum computers stack up to one another

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Superconducting qubits have passed a key quantum test

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Why virtual particles don’t exist but do explain reality – for now

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To create a wormhole that doesn't collapse, you need exotic matter

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How we could discover quantum gravity without rebuilding space-time

In the search for a theory that unites general relativity and quantum physics, many have tried to rethink space-time. But what if space-time emerges naturally, like a hologram?

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Weird particle that remembers its past discovered by quantum computer

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Cryptographers bet cash on when quantum computers will beat encryption

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Quantum computers could simulate a black hole in the next decade

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Exotic cosmic objects in string theory may look like leaky black holes

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