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An AI Agent Lets Quantum Computers Recalibrate Themselves Without Pausing
Researchers at Google turned a quantum machine's own error signals into a teacher, letting it hold steady through long computations.
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Ant Brains Repurpose the Chemistry of Hunger for Caregiving
A new study in Nature finds that two ancient appetite-regulating molecules also determine whether a clonal raider ant nurses larvae or leaves the nest to forage.
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Atom-Thin Boron Nitride Switches Make Gallium Nitride Radio Chips Reprogrammable
An international team has built programmable millimetre-wave circuits by integrating memristive switches made from two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride directly onto gallium nitride chips.
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A Smarter Electrolyte Points Lithium-Metal Batteries Toward Longer Life
A Nanjing University team reports an additive that engages only at the electrode surface, letting high-energy lithium-metal cells endure hundreds more charge cycles.
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Deep-Sea Observatory Records the Ocean Floor Splitting Open for the First Time
An autonomous array on the Southeast Indian Ridge captured a rare seafloor-spreading event in real time, revealing how new oceanic crust forms in sudden bursts.
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AI Model Slashes the Cost of Simulating How Stars Forge Heavy Elements
A German-led team's open-source neural network, RHINE, reproduces the heat of exploding stars' nuclear reactions in a fraction of the usual computing time.
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MIT Spinout Quaise Secures $134 Million to Build a Superhot Geothermal Plant in Oregon
The Houston company plans to bore several kilometres into hot rock with millimeter-wave beams instead of drill bits, aiming to send first power to the grid by 2030.
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Ancient DNA From a Tomb Near Paris Sheds Light on the End of Europe's Megaliths
A study of 132 Stone Age genomes shows one population vanished and another arrived, offering a data-driven answer to a long-standing archaeological puzzle.