Majorana 1

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Who funds quantum research?

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Analysis Science artificial intelligence Bruce Schneier Drew Weissman drug development Katalin Karikó Majorana 1 Microsoft Research mRNA vaccines Nathan Sanders Normal Eisen Physical Review B Physics World public AI public quantum quantum computing quantum technologies topological qubit Winfried Hensinger

An odd little detail in a Physics World piece on Microsoft’s claim to have made a working topological qubit: Regardless of the debate about the results and how they have been announced, researchers a…

Majorana 1, science journalism, and other things

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Scicomm Alexei Kitaev Ben Feringa Cassandra Willyard curiosity curiosity-driven research David Thouless Duncan Haldane Fraser Stoddart Jean-Pierre Sauvage John Kosterlitz Majorana 1 Majorana fermions Microsoft National Science Day Nobel Prizes quantum computing science journalism The Hindu topological order

While I have many issues with how the Nobel Prizes are put together as an institution, the scientific achievements they have revealed have been some of the funnest concepts I’ve discovered in science,…