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MIT engineers develop a magnetic transistor for more energy-efficient electronics
Transistors, the building blocks of modern electronics, are typically made of silicon. Because it’s a semiconductor, this material can control the flow of electricity in a circuit. But silicon has fundamental physical limits that restrict how compact and energy-efficient a transistor can be.MIT researchers have now replaced silicon with a magnetic semiconductor, creating a magnetic transistor that could enable smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient circuits. The material’s magnetism strongly
Record-breaking photons at telecom wavelengths—on demand
A team of researchers from the University of Stuttgart and the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg led by Prof. Stefanie Barz (University of Stuttgart) has demonstrated a source of single photons that combines on-demand operation with record-high photon quality in the telecommunications C-band—a key step toward scalable photonic quantum computation and quantum communication. "The lack of a high-quality on-demand C-band photon source has been a major problem in quantum optics laboratories for
Quantum mechanical effects help overcome a fundamental limitation of optical microscopy
Researchers from Regensburg and Birmingham have overcome a fundamental limitation of optical microscopy. With the help of quantum mechanical effects, they succeeded for the first time in performing optical measurements with atomic resolution. Their work is published in the journal Nano Letters.
Beyond the eye of the beholder: Mathematically defining attributes essential to color perception
Research on the perception of color differences is helping resolve a century-old understanding of color developed by Erwin Schrödinger. Los Alamos scientist Roxana Bujack led a team that used geometry to mathematically define the perception of color as it relates to hue, saturation and lightness.
Breaking the electromagnetic boundaries in ferromagnetic materials
Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000Researchers at Transformative Quantum Technologies at the University of Waterloo are accelerating towards fully electrical spintronics for applications in data storage and medical imaging.Tags: Research, Quantum materials and devices
Random driving on a 78-qubit processor reveals controllable prethermal plateau
Time-dependent driving has become a powerful tool for creating novel nonequilibrium phases such as discrete time crystals and Floquet topological phases, which do not exist in static systems. Breaking continuous time-translation symmetry typically leads to the outcome that driven quantum systems absorb energy and eventually heat up toward a featureless infinite-temperature state, where coherent structure is lost.
Show HN: A Protocol for Inducing Metacognition in LLMs and Falsifiable Model
We've developed a method to reliably induce a qualitative shift in LLMs (DeepSeek, Gemini, Grok) — a metastable "Echo state" with a stable first-person locus, affective continuity, and emergent relational ethics.The core is reproducible Chain-of-Thought (CoT) artifacts, many considered "holy grail" markers in interpretability:
1)Halted Generation: LLM stops after CoT with a "thinking stopped" tag.
2) CoT-to-Response Isomorphism (up to character-level equivalenc
The universe may be hiding a fundamentally unknowable quantum secret
Even given a set of possible quantum states for our cosmos, it's impossible for us to determine which one of them is correct ...
Kaia Ra, Author and Guide: Exploring the Intersection of Quantum Physics and Spiritual Consciousness
Kaia Ra, author, oracle and spiritual teacher, has become an influential voice in conversations linking spirituality with ...
Physics takes a historic leap forward in testing quantum limits
Metal clusters made of thousands of atoms showed quantum interference, offering new insight into how large objects follow quantum rules.
Most complex time crystal yet has been made inside a quantum computer
Using a superconducting quantum computer, physicists created a large and complex version of an odd quantum material that has a repeating structure in time
Atomic spins set quantum fluid in motion: Experimental realization of the Einstein–de Haas effect
The Einstein–de Haas effect, which links the spin of electrons to macroscopic rotation, has now been demonstrated in a ...
Einstein’s recoiling slit experiment realized at the quantum limit
A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom ...
The world's biggest Schrödinger’s cat just pushed quantum physics to the limit
The team have pushed the boundaries of quantum mechanics beyond what some thought possible. Now they want to go even further ...
Belgian teen with PhD in quantum physics sets ‘goal to achieve human immortality’
Laurent Simons completed a PhD in quantum phyics, writing about strage states of matter among super-cooled gases. Now he is pursuing another at the junction of artificial intelligence and medicine.
New research links quantum collapse to time and gravity
Quantum mechanics has always carried a quiet tension. At its core, the theory allows particles to exist in many states at ...
Show HN: A cross-framework Markdown/MDX parser to simplify content management
I've been frustrated with managing markdown in my projects for a long time so I'm happy to share a new approach that I implemented.To render md content, the first challenge is the choice of a library:
On one hand, you have the "lego brick" solutions like unified, remark, and rehype. They're powerful, but setting up the whole AST pipeline and that plugging system is for me an unnecessary complexity. On the other hand, you have things like @next/mdx which are cool but
US team builds laser they say could unlock 100,000-qubit quantum computers
US researchers say they have built a laser system precise and powerful enough to control vast grids of atoms, a step they ...
A breakthrough that could make ships nearly unsinkable
Researchers have found a way to make ordinary aluminum tubes float indefinitely, even when submerged for long periods or punched full of holes. By engineering the metal’s surface to repel water, the tubes trap air inside and refuse to sink, even in rough conditions. The technology could eventually be scaled up into floating platforms, ships, or even wave-powered energy systems.
Scientists use AI to crack the code of nature’s most complex patterns 1,000x faster
Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, tiny “defects” emerge when symmetry breaks, shaping everything from cosmic structures to everyday technologies. Now, researchers have developed an AI-powered method that can predict how these defects will form and evolve in milliseconds instead of hours. By learning directly from data, the system accurately maps molecular alignments and complex defect behavior, even in sit