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John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis awarded Nobel Prize 2025 for discoveries driving quantum computing.

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A new physics paper takes a step toward creating a long-sought "theory of everything" by uniting gravity with the quantum world. However, the new theory remains far from being proven observationally.