Summary Financial Times reporting summarised on Slashdot: Google and IBM say they can build industrial-scale quantum machines with around one million physical qubits by 2030. IBM published a blueprint earlier…
DARPA smashes wireless power record, beaming energy more than 5 miles away — and uses it to make popcorn Summary The U.S. Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a…
World’s first artificial tongue ‘tastes and learns’ like a real human organ Summary Researchers have built the first artificial tongue that both senses and processes flavours while fully immersed in…
Highly efficient deep-blue LED devices made using hybrid copper–iodide compound Summary A non-toxic, robust and solution-processable copper–iodide-based hybrid semiconductor has been designed that emits deep-blue light with nearly 100% emission…
Kinetic turbulence drives MHD equilibrium change via 3D reconnection Summary This paper reports a laboratory demonstration that kinetic-scale turbulence — driven by fast electron beams — can trigger three-dimensional magnetic…
Merging of magnetic plasma ‘flux ropes’ is driven by turbulence Summary This News & Views piece by Jeffersson Agudelo Rueda discusses an experimental study reported in Nature (Park et al.)…
A global humidity index with lateral hydrologic flows Summary This Nature paper introduces GHI_topo, a global humidity index that adds lateral hydrologic subsidy (Qlat) from surface and groundwater to conventional…
Parent-of-origin effects on complex traits in up to 236,781 individuals Summary This study introduces a scalable multistep method to infer parental origin (PofO) of alleles across large biobanks and applies…
Data-driven de novo design of super-adhesive hydrogels Summary This Nature paper reports an end-to-end, data-driven framework that combines data mining (DM) of adhesive protein sequences, scalable polymer synthesis and machine…
Optical control of resonances in temporally symmetry-broken metasurfaces Summary This paper demonstrates ultrafast, optical control of the radiative loss (γ_rad) of resonances in dielectric metasurfaces by temporally breaking photonic symmetry.…
