‘Afraid We Will Become The Next Xinjiang’: China’s Hui Muslims Face Crackdown
By: Emily Feng September 26, 2019 Gold-domed mosques and gleaming minarets once broke the monotony of the Ningxia region’s vast scrubland every few miles. This countryside here is home to some of China’s 10.5 million Hui Muslims, who have practiced Sunni or Sufi forms of Islam within tight-knit communities for centuries, mainly in the northwest […]
‘Absolute revolution’: UK biotech firms thrive despite Brexit threat
By: Julia Kollewe December 26, 2019 Biotech is one of the most promising parts of the British drug industry, not least according to the investors who continue to pump vast sums into the sector despite the looming shadow of Brexit. In the first eight months of 2018 alone it received nearly £1.6bn, compared with £1.2bn […]
Proof emerges that a quantum computer can outperform a classical one
By: Schrödinger’s cheetah September 26, 2019 IN AN ARTICLE published in 2012 John Preskill, a theoretical physicist, posed a question: “Is controlling large-scale quantum systems merely really, really hard, or is it ridiculously hard?” Seven years later the answer is in: it is merely really, really hard. Last week a paper on the matter was—briefly […]