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The 2025 Nobel prize in physics has gone to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis, whose work has led to the ...

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A memory chip just 10 atoms thick has been tested in a lab and integrated into conventional chips, demonstrating a technology ...

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For decades, forest, grasslands and other land ecosystems have collectively absorbed up to a third of the carbon dioxide we ...

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