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Scientists have demonstrated that exotic quasiparticles known as non-Abelian anyons can perform the full range of operations required for universal quantum computing, using 54 qubits on Quantinuum's H2 processor. By combining braiding and fusion operations, the team unlocked capabilities that braiding alone could not achieve. The result marks a significant validation for topological quantum computing approaches, long considered a promising but unproven 'dark horse' path toward fault-tolerant quantum computers.