{"id":223056,"date":"2026-02-07T00:32:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-understanding-iyq-why-quantum-science-is-in-the-spotlight-and-what-it-means-for-ghana\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T00:32:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:32:55","slug":"ghana-understanding-iyq-why-quantum-science-is-in-the-spotlight-and-what-it-means-for-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-understanding-iyq-why-quantum-science-is-in-the-spotlight-and-what-it-means-for-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Understanding Iyq &#8211; Why Quantum Science Is in the Spotlight and What It Means for Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">In recent years, science has quietly shaped how people communicate, receive medical care, predict the weather, and protect digital information. At the heart of many of these advances is <em>quantum science<\/em>&#8211;a field that studies how nature behaves at the smallest possible scales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">To draw global attention to its growing importance, the United Nations declared <strong>2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">The International Year was established to help governments, educators,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602060325.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, science has quietly shaped how people communicate, receive medical care, predict the weather, and protect digital information. At the heart of many of these advances is quantum science&#8211;a field that studies how nature behaves at the smallest possible scales. To draw global attention to its growing importance, the United Nations declared 2025 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4508,4509,53597,13155,257,40628,6208,254,5124,5995],"class_list":["post-223056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-iyq","tag-means","tag-news","tag-quantum","tag-science","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spotlight","tag-understanding"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}