Neutral-atom arrays are a rapidly emerging platform to create quantum computers. In a foundational study led by graduate students Aaron Holman and Yuan Xu from the Will and Yu labs, respectively, the ...

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I became an empty nester this fall when my younger kid went to college. As a single parent, it hit me hard; I have more time to myself than my married, empty-nest friends. I've realized that as my ...

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On Linux x86-64 Python 3.14.0 (installed from uv python, but I haven't tested other Python installations), I find that round-tripping an empty array through pickle is causing it to come back with a ...

This month, our twin boys — our only children — will fly the coop and head off to university. For the first time in 19 years, just two of us and our 12-pound Maltese Shih Tzu will be rattling around ...

Jamie Delaney didn’t know what to expect when she became an empty nester in 2023. She'd left her full-time job as a professor in child psychology 12 years ago to stay home with her two kids. Once her ...

On a sunny Thursday in August, my husband and I dropped off our daughter Eleanor for her freshman year of college. The three of us raced to unload the car during our 8–8:20-a.m. time slot, lugged ...

You’ve heard of tiny houses. What about tiny, tiny, apartments? A new proposal to address the housing crisis would convert empty office space in many American cities to deeply affordable apartments ...