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Quantum computers promise to tackle problems that are unsolvable for today’s machines, but their basic units (qubits) are incredibly fragile. Even a tiny disturbance can wipe out the entire delicate ...

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Everyone makes mistakes—and sometimes those mistakes can lead to surprising discoveries. In the early 1990s, while programming the computer game Doom, game developer John Carmack set the value of pi ...

The U.S. Senate on Monday passed the Internal Revenue Service Math and Taxpayer Help Act, H.R. 998, which, among other changes, requires the IRS to provide taxpayers ...

A collage shows a red X over a person in a chemistry lab conducting an experiment. Credit: Madeline Monroe/C&EN/Shutterstock More than 20% of chemistry researchers ...

A photo supplied by Bechtel depicts what it said was an example of a correctly set bracket fastener for a formwork climbing system of the type used at a Port Arthur, Texas, LNG export terminal project ...

In recent years, quantum computers have begun to handle double-digit quantum bits, or qubits. However, many essential applications targeted by quantum computers, such as quantum chemistry, ...