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Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist, was attacked with the nerve agent Novichok — a calling card of the Russian security services — Germany's government announced on Wednesday.The state of play: Navalny remains in a coma in a Berlin hospital two weeks after falling ill on a…

Five new quantum information science centers will marry the R&D strengths of academia, industry and U.S. national laboratories Credit: Getty Images Fully functional quantum computers and a new quantum industry may appear much sooner than many have anticipated—thanks to five new National Quantum Information Science Research centers just announced by…

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MOSCOW—Yegor Zhukov is the face of a new generation of Putin opponents using social media as well as student rallies to stand up to the regime. On Sunday night, he was beaten up outside his home in Moscow hours after posting a YouTube video criticizing Putin. In a statement to…

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has formed a police force to intervene in Belarus if he decides it is necessary to support embattled President Alexander Lukashenko. Speaking on Russian state TV, Putin said Lukashenko “asked me to set up a certain police reserve - I have done so”.He went on to say that…

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…