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Stretching quantum cats could make for better computers

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

A team of physicists at Yale demonstrated that the inherent quantum weirdness can be harnessed to make quantum computers, and that cats would help do it---sort of. While classical computers (the kind you use to read this article) encode information in bits that can be either 0 or 1, quantum computers use quantum bits (or qubits) that can be both 0 and 1 at the same time, in a so-called "quantum superposition". In this, they resemble the famous Schrödinger's cat, both dead and alive until we...

Networking: Nature or Nurture?

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Interview with expert science communicator Alaina Levine who is the author of 'Networking for Nerds'.
Could you tell us a little bit about your background and connection to science? I've always had four parallel paths in my life; one was in science, one was in business, one was in the performing arts and one was in written communications. I love doing all four of those things. But what I really loved was science and so I came to the University of Arizona (UoA). I ended up getting two degrees;...

A 300-year old mystery solved!

May 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Professor Andrew Wiles (pictured above), faculty at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford has won the most prestigious award in Mathematics- Abel prize, in recognition for his solution to a 300-year old mathematical problem- famously known as Fermat's Last Theorem!

This particular problem, in a branch of mathematics called Number Theory, has baffled many mathematicians over the past three centuries.

So who is Fermat and what exactly is this problem with an elusive solution?

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