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This is an artist’s rendition of the Sycamore processor. Google says the Sycamore was able to do a mathematical calculation in three minutes and 20 seconds. The company claims it would have taken existing supercomputers 10,000 years to complete the same calculation. (Photo: Forest Stearns, Google AI Quantum Artist in Residence)
This is an artist’s rendition of the Sycamore processor. Google says the Sycamore was able to do a mathematical calculation in three minutes and 20 seconds. The company claims it would have taken existing supercomputers 10,000 years to complete the same calculation. (Photo: Forest Stearns, Google AI Quantum Artist in Residence)
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This is an artist’s rendition of the Sycamore processor. Google says the Sycamore was able to do a mathematical calculation in three minutes and 20 seconds. The company claims it would have taken existing supercomputers 10,000 years to complete the same calculation. (Photo: Forest Stearns, Google AI Quantum Artist in Residence)
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Jennifer Doudna, pictured here, and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the 2020 Nobel Prize for chemistry for their work in genome editing. (Photo: Jussi Puikkonen/KNAW)
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Two COVID-19 vaccines hit the market in December 2020, ending the year on a note of optimism. (Photo: © Siam Pukkato | Dreamstime.com)
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SPARC, a compact, high-field, DT-burning tokamak shown in this rendering, is currently under design by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Its mission is to create and confine a plasma that produces net fusion energy. (Photo: T. Henderson, CFS/MIT-PSFC)
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Google’s Sycamore chip is composed of 54 qubits, technology that has led the internet giant to claim “quantum supremacy.“ (Photo: ERIC LUCERO)
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Elon Musk is confident SpaceX will be able to land humans on Mars by 2026, maybe even 2024. Shown here is the launch of Falcon 9 in July 2014. (Photo: SPACEX)
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Planet Proxima Centuri b, shown here in an artist’s rendering, orbits the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth’s solar system. (Photo: ESO/M. Kornmesser)
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The northern arm of the LIGO interferometer on Hanford Reservation in Washington confirmed gravitational waves, pushing our understanding of the universe into a new sphere. (Photo: Umptanum)
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The discovery by British physicist Peter Higgs of the Higgs-Boson particle caused celebrations in the scientific community. (Photo: Bengt Nyman)
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The response to the COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to differences in female and male leadership styles. Countries run by women, such as Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen, have fared better. (Photo: Wang Yu Ching )
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Experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have argued that AI-powered robots, such as Kismet, pictured here, will not leave an army of unemployed workers. (Photo: MIT Museum)
