Quantum Computer Finds What Classical Couldn't
IBM's Heron R3 quantum computer handled a task that made a classical method back down. The challenge was finding the ground state, the lowest energy level, of a system of 49 quantum bits.
Quantum Computer Weaves an Invisible Thread of Order
A rope braided from a hundred short strands can be twisted to the right or to the left. Each strand individually doesn't know which way the whole rope is twisted, but try to unravel it, and the difference immediately shows. That's roughly how the states physicists call symmetry-protected are arranged: locally they are indistinguishable, but globally they are different.