World’s timekeepers to vote on ditching leap second
On 27 days in the past century, time has gone backwards for a second. Or, at least, our…
Safety and security of large language models in healthcare
Gommers, J. et al. Interval cancer, sensitivity, and specificity comparing AI-supported mammography screening with standard double reading without…
Quantum Computer Solves a Problem in 15 Minutes That Classical Methods Can’t Practically Compute
Scientists used a new error correction method to encode 70 logical qubits and solve a problem that is…
Artificial intelligence for representing and characterizing quantum systems
Van Damme, J. et al. Advanced CMOS manufacturing of superconducting qubits on 300 mm wafers. Nature 634, 74–79…
UKZN student to represent South Africa at international entrepreneurship competition
University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) student Chwayita Momoza has been selected to represent South Africa at the Middle East,…
Physicists Solve a “Quantum-Only” Problem Using an Ordinary Laptop
Tensor networks enable researchers to tackle quantum physics problems previously thought to be solvable only by quantum computers.…
A 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer with all-to-all connectivity
Quantum operations The 1Q and 2Q gates are implemented with pairs of 515-nm laser beams separated by the…
Reconstructing urban mobility from the built environment
Kraemer, M. U. G. et al. Science 368, 493–497 (2020). Article Google Scholar Brockmann, D. & Helbing, D.…
Physical unclonable functions based on chaotic vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers for dynamic authentication
Abouelmehdi, K., Beni-Hssane, A., Khaloufi, H. & Saadi, M. Big data security and privacy in healthcare: a review.…
Improving access to essential medicines via decision-aware machine learning
Yadav, P. Health product supply chains in developing countries: diagnosis of the root causes of underperformance and an…
Language models transmit behavioural traits through hidden signals in data
Experimental setup: distillation on an unrelated domain This section describes the structure of our main experiments (Fig. 2).…
Scientists achieve 99.9% accurate quantum gates across 17,000 qubits
Scientists in Switzerland have come closer to building stable quantum computers after developing a swap gate made of…