Quanta Science Podcast

• Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold

  In a first, researchers have shown that adding more “qubits” to a quantum computer can make it more resilient. It’s an essential step on the long road to practical applications. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Clover 3” by Vibe Mountain.

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• Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too?

  The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well.

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• Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound

  Three new species of superconductivity were spotted this year, illustrating the myriad ways electrons can join together to form a frictionless quantum soup.

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• It Might Be Possible to Detect Gravitons After All

  A new experimental proposal suggests detecting a particle of gravity is far easier than anyone imagined. Now physicists are debating what it would really prove.

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• How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero

  Zero, which was invented late in history, is special among numbers. New studies are uncovering how the brain creates something out of nothing.

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