Physics
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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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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.
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The Rise of “Physics-Native” Computing: Hardware That Mimics Reality
Read more: The Rise of “Physics-Native” Computing: Hardware That Mimics RealityPhysics-native computing—hardware that solves equations by mimicking the physics being modeled—will emerge as a recognized category alongside CPUs and GPUs in 2026.
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Graphene Breaks a Fundamental Law of Physics by Decoupling Heat and Charge
Read more: Graphene Breaks a Fundamental Law of Physics by Decoupling Heat and ChargeGraphene’s electrons just broke physics rules, flowing like a perfect, otherworldly quantum liquid that decouples heat from electricity.
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MicroBooNE Results Rule Out Sterile Neutrino, Overturning a Major “New Physics” Theory
Read more: MicroBooNE Results Rule Out Sterile Neutrino, Overturning a Major “New Physics” TheoryImpactful new results from Fermilab have essentially debunked the “sterile neutrino” theory, sending physicists back to the drawing board to explain dark matter.
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Solid Light Is Now Reality: Physicists Create the World’s First Photonic Supersolid
Read more: Solid Light Is Now Reality: Physicists Create the World’s First Photonic SupersolidFor the first time, light has been manipulated to form a rigid crystal structure that still flows like a liquid—a “photonic supersolid” that makes “solid light” science fact.
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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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Ultra-Long Earthquake in Myanmar Reveals New Fault Behavior
Read more: Ultra-Long Earthquake in Myanmar Reveals New Fault BehaviorUltra-long earthquake in Myanmar reveals stronger surface shaking from mature faults.