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With the crisis in Belarus entering its fourth week, Russia faces a quandary — do nothing and risk an outcome it can't control and may not like. Or directly intervene and risk a nasty backlash. For the moment, President Vladimir Putin appears content to wait and watch.Yuliya Palanetskaya, far right,…

QUANTUM COMPUTING Yury Suleymanov See allHide authors and affiliations Science  28 Aug 2020:Vol. 369, Issue 6507, pp. 1069-1071DOI: 10.1126/science.369.6507.1069-o Read More

Log in to view the full text Log in through your institution Log in through your institutionLog in with your institution via Shibboleth. SummaryQuantum computers potentially have computational power greater than that of their classical counterparts. The recent demonstration of “quantum supremacy” on Google's 53-qubit Sycamore quantum processor (1) has…

MOSCOW—Russia has assembled a law-enforcement team to help shore up Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko if protests against him spiral out of control, President Vladimir Putin said, giving the first indications of how Moscow might intervene to help its longstanding ally. Mr. Putin said the special unit had been requested by…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed military support for Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, while urging a peaceful resolution to unrest and demonstrations that erupted after a disputed election. EU ambassadors in Minsk denounced a crackdown on the opposition in the wake of the presidential poll, in which 65-year-old Mr Lukashenko…

The European Union and ambassadors of its member states in Belarus on Thursday condemned a crackdown on opposition leaders seeking new elections after a disputed vote this month. Russian President Putin reacted by saying his country had set up a 'reserve police force' to help Belarus's leader if needed. Allies of…

MOSCOW: Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s sudden illness has upended his strategy to challenge Vladimir Putin’s grip on power at upcoming regional elections. But it also exposes a longer-term issue – the leadership vacuum within Russia’s opposition.Navalny, 44, now lying in a Berlin hospital after a suspected poisoning, had been urging…

Accommodating many qubits together on one processor can lead to a significantly faster quantum computer that can handle far more complex problems than today’s conventional computers. Although that relies on qubit’s integrity, or how long it can operate before its superposition and the quantum information are lost — a process…

A new government initiative will direct hundreds of millions of dollars to support new centers for quantum computing research.Why it matters: Quantum information science represents the next leap forward for computing, opening the door to powerful machines that can help provide answers to some of our most pressing questions. The…

Boris Johnson has called for a "transparent" investigation into the poisoning of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, which he described as "the most extraordinary thing".The prime minister pledged to join "international efforts to ensure justice is done" after Mr Navalny was left in an artificial coma in hospital. The 44-year-old…