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Karin Hammarberg is affiliated with Monash University, which is not connected with Monash IVF and the incident mentioned in the article. The news of a woman unknowingly giving birth to another patient ...

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Few tasks come as thankless as asking a scientific journal editor to correct a bad study. “I think that it [is] time to stop this never-ending story,” the editor in chief of a diabetes journal told us ...

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Conducting a poll isn’t an exact science. The process is susceptible to lots of common problems and baked-in biases — more than just the “margin of error.” By ...

The company’s surface code technique allows its quantum bits to faithfully store and manipulate data for longer, which could pave the way for useful quantum ...

For the first time, a quantum computer has improved its results by repeatedly fixing its own mistakes midcalculation with a technique called quantum error correction ...