Quantum Sensing

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Looking inside a pigeon’s ear using quantum technology

Quantum microscopy is able to image tiny biological magnetic structures inside a pigeon’s ear and may help to explain how animals use magnetic fields to navigate

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Magnetic teeth revealed using quantum imaging

Scientists have used new quantum magnetic imaging techniques to study the hardest known biomineral – the magnetite found in mollusc teeth – which may inspire new industrial materials

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The Quantum sensing revolution

Quantum sensors can detect tiny changes at the level below the atom, and it’s leading to entirely new questions about how our biological systems work

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A brief history of Quantum

The quantum revolution is coming, and it’s taken some big leaps of thinking from some of the biggest minds of the 20th century to get us to this point

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What has Quantum ever done for me?

Much of quantum computing exists primarily in theory. Quantum sensing, however, is already here

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Quantum 2.0: At the beating heart of biology

What is life? The question was posed by famous theoretical physicist Erwin Schrödinger, and now advances in quantum mechanics could help provide the answer

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Quantum leap in computer simulation

Physicists have successfully run the largest quantum computing simulation to date, a key step in becoming quantum-ready