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4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (555+ words) Alex Krasnok argues that the value of a university quantum computer lies in what students learn from it The best moment in my quantum-computing class often comes when something fails. A student writes a short quantum circuit – a program that…...

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1+ week, 4+ day ago   (382+ words) Many neurotherapies, with a range of sizes, could benefit from this drug delivery method. But measuring how much of the drug gets past the blood–brain barrier is challenging with current imaging methods. For example, fluorescence imaging is limited by…...

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