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Cosmic challenge: protecting supercomputers from an extraterrestrial threat

17 Jul 2021
Taken from the July 2021 issue of Physics World.

Fast neutrons from cosmic-ray showers can cause significant errors in supercomputers. But by measuring the scale of the problem, physicists hope not only to make such devices less prone to cosmic corruption but also protect everything from self-driving cars to quantum computers, as Rachel Brazil finds out

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