For more than two decades, NC State researchers have studied the use of genetics to grow what they call “elite” Christmas trees. They are now about to harvest the first batch of seeds that growers can plant in their own fields. In partnership with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the North …
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Artist’s impression of a collection of black holes at the heart of a star cluster. Credit: ESA/Hubble, N. Bartmann Since 2015, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration has detected around 85 pairs of colliding black holes. We now know that Einstein was right: gravitational waves are generated by these systems as they wind around each other, warping spacetime …
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Artistic representation of Majorana edge modes on a string of superconducting qubits. Credit: Google Quantum AI Google Quantum AI physicists have used their quantum computer to study an efficient type of particle that is more resilient to environmental disturbances that can degrade quantum computations. These effective particles, known as Majorana edge modes, form as a …
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