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Duke team simulates Big Bang matter creation on a quantum computer

Researchers at the Duke Quantum Center have used a trapped-ion quantum simulator to observe string-breaking dynamics — a process tied to the creation of matter in the earliest moments after the Big Bang — in a study published Wednesday in…

Vision, not frontal lobe, drove primate brain evolution, study finds

A new study published Thursday in the journal Science overturns a long-held assumption about how primates — including humans — came to have such large and complex brains. Rather than independent expansion of the frontal lobe, the region most often…