AnneBonny

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Motor_Vehicle_Safety_Standards

How many more should we have?

I agree. I only wanted to point out that reaching a consensus about the results of an experiment or a study is more difficult in some areas of research.

How does getting rid of crumple zones facilitate that?

You can't be too careful.

I don't think science has been successful in fields like sociology or psychology in the same way that it has been in hard sciences like physics.

FYI, a similar office was established in the GAO recently.

https://www.science.org/content/article/house-democrats-move-resurrect-congress-s-science-advisory-office

https://www.gao.gov/blog/2019/01/29/our-new-science-technology-assessment-and-analytics-team

It isn't vulnerable to physical degradation.

Why

It's faster than Moore's law, but I don't know whether it can be sustained.

For years, IBM has been following a quantum-computing road map that roughly doubled the number of qubits every year. The chip unveiled on 4 December, called Condor, has 1,121 superconducting qubits arranged in a honeycomb pattern. It follows on from its other record-setting, bird-named machines, including a 127-qubit chip in 2021 and a 433-qubit one last year.