Willow Chip Cuts Magic-State Errors 40-Fold, Reshaping Quantum Economics

Willow Chip Cuts Magic-State Errors 40-Fold, Reshaping Quantum Economics

Google Quantum AI has dragged one of quantum computing’s least glamorous chores off the whiteboard and onto real silicon. In a paper published in Science on 15 October, the company’s researchers report that a technique called magic state cultivation works on the Willow processor, cutting state-preparation errors by roughly 40-fold and lifting logical fidelity for … Read more

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026: Kagan and Soai Solve Life’s Molecular Handedness

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026: Kagan and Soai Solve Life’s Molecular Handedness

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on 7 October that Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. The award crowns a body of work that finally answers a question chemists have wrestled with for more … Read more