Physical Science
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Scientists Discover Living Fossils That Thrive in Cleanrooms, Challenging Assumptions About Sterility
Read more: Scientists Discover Living Fossils That Thrive in Cleanrooms, Challenging Assumptions About SterilityScientists have found 26 new bacterial species thriving in NASA cleanrooms long thought sterile, challenging assumptions about microbial survival and planetary protection.
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Light-Powered Photonic AI Chip Claims 100x Speed Over NVIDIA GPUs
Read more: Light-Powered Photonic AI Chip Claims 100x Speed Over NVIDIA GPUsPhotonic chip uses light interference for 100x faster neural compute than GPUs with massive energy savings.
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Tiny Chip Breakthrough Enables Scalable Quantum Computing
Read more: Tiny Chip Breakthrough Enables Scalable Quantum ComputingTiny chip revolutionizes laser control for million-qubit quantum systems.
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Artemis II: Astronauts and Launch Teams Complete Final Countdown Rehearsal
Read more: Artemis II: Astronauts and Launch Teams Complete Final Countdown RehearsalAstronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen departed the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at around 12:20 p.m. EST, sporting their orange pressure suits, for a 5.5-mile journey to the Vehicle Assembly Building where the Space Launch System rocket and their Orion spacecraft were waiting.
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Imec Achieves Breakthrough: 120-Layer Si/SiGe Stacking on 300mm Wafers for 3D DRAM and AI Memory
Read more: Imec Achieves Breakthrough: 120-Layer Si/SiGe Stacking on 300mm Wafers for 3D DRAM and AI MemoryImec stacks 120 Si/SiGe layers on 300mm wafers, enabling production-scale 3D DRAM for AI compute density.
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James Webb Telescope Captures Most Distant Supernova at Cosmic Dawn
Read more: James Webb Telescope Captures Most Distant Supernova at Cosmic DawnJWST detects record distant supernova resembling local explosions at cosmic dawn.
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Beyond Supernovae: Black Holes Confirmed as the Engines of Cosmic Blue Flashes
Read more: Beyond Supernovae: Black Holes Confirmed as the Engines of Cosmic Blue FlashesFor the first time we have confirmed that these transients require some sort of central energy source beyond what a supernova can produce.
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Connectome Pioneer Sebastian Seung Is Building a Digital Brain
Read more: Connectome Pioneer Sebastian Seung Is Building a Digital BrainSebastian Seung, a leading connectomics researcher, has launched Memazing to build software emulations of brains using real neural wiring diagrams, starting with the fruit fly brain.
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Earth’s Core is “Leaking”: Primordial Helium Found Rising to the Surface
Read more: Earth’s Core is “Leaking”: Primordial Helium Found Rising to the SurfaceStrong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out… Continent-size entities anchored to the core-mantle boundary might be involved.
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Beyond Einstein: Q-desics Reveal Quantum Glitches in Space-Time
Read more: Beyond Einstein: Q-desics Reveal Quantum Glitches in Space-TimeInstead of looking for quantum gravity where space-time is tiny, subtle quantum effects called q-desics could influence how particles and light move across huge cosmical distances.