Olival Freire Jr is a professor of physics and the history of physics at the Federal ... of densely packed positive charge. How quantum mechanics emerged in a few revolutionary months 100 years ...

Quantum computing has been in focus recently and for good reason. This type of technology may not be as widely understood as AI, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth paying attention to. On the ...

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But this isn’t the first quantum race in history that pitted the U.S. against its adversaries—and the past provides a guide for how the U.S. can win the coming computing revolution.