Work relating to Microsoft’s new quantum computing chip has been called into question after an author on the study acknowledged it contained “undisclosed data manipulations,” according to emails obtained by Retraction Watch and Science. The findings, published in 2017 in Nature Communications by a Microsoft-funded lab at the Delft University of Technology, were a key step in demonstrating how an ultrathin “nanowire” might be useful as a bit in a quantum chip, just as a transistor is used in a co...