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A Chalmers and Tianjin physics team compressed years of incremental quantum-state tuning into one carefully calculated pulse, speeding up a key bottleneck in fault-tolerant quantum computing roughly 1,000 times over, at least in simulation.
At CERN, physicists smashed oxygen and neon nuclei together at nearly the speed of light. The way the wreckage spread out differed between the two, and the difference tracks the shapes the nuclei are thought to hold inside: a tetrahedron for oxygen, a bowling pin for neon.