Mel Hall campaigns in the Indiana district he hopes to represent. By Jeffrey MervisOct. 19, 2018 , 11:30 AM ScienceInsider’s coverage of the 2018 U.S. elections has featured profiles of several candidates with scientific backgrounds running for the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as stories about the challenges those candidates have faced on the campaign…


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Quantum computers are expected to be better at solving certain computational problems than classical computers. This expectation is based on (well-founded) conjectures in computational complexity theory, but rigorous comparisons between the capabilities of quantum and classical algorithms are difficult to perform. Bravyi et al. proved theoretically that whereas the number of “steps” needed by parallel…


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Jezero crater and its fossil river delta is a favored landing site for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover.  By Paul VoosenOct. 18, 2018 , 5:50 PM After 3 days of intense debate, a nonbinding vote by planetary scientists meeting in Glendale, California, resulted in a virtual tie between several candidate landing sites for NASA’s next $2.5 billion Mars…


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John Christy (left) is among the candidates for the Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board. By Scott Waldman, E&E NewsOct. 18, 2018 , 12:30 PM Originally published by E&E News Finalists for the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Science Advisory Board include researchers who reject mainstream climate science and who have fought against environmental regulations for years.


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