You might store your precious memories in diary passages or in photos backed up on a hard drive. But thanks to physics, no memory can last forever—not in a diary, not in a hard drive, not even in your ...

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Briton John Clarke, Frenchman Michel Devoret and American John Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for putting ...