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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

Earth has been feeding the moon for billions of years

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field. Rather than blocking particles, the magnetic field can funnel them along invisible lines that sometimes stretch all the way to the moon. This explains mysterious gases found in Apollo samples and suggests lunar soil may hold a long-term archive of Earth’s history. It could also become a valuable resource for future lunar explorers.

Physicists found hidden order in violent proton collisions

Inside high-energy proton collisions, quarks and gluons briefly form a dense, boiling state before cooling into ordinary particles. Researchers expected this transition to change how disordered the system is, but LHC data tell a different story. A newly improved collision model matches experiments better than older ones and reveals that the “entropy” remains unchanged throughout the process. This unexpected result turns out to be a direct fingerprint of quantum mechanics at work.

AI may not need massive training data after all

New research shows that AI doesn’t need endless training data to start acting more like a human brain. When researchers redesigned AI systems to better resemble biological brains, some models produced brain-like activity without any training at all. This challenges today’s data-hungry approach to AI development. The work suggests smarter design could dramatically speed up learning while slashing costs and energy use.

China’s “artificial sun” just broke a fusion limit scientists thought was unbreakable

Researchers using China’s “artificial sun” fusion reactor have broken through a long-standing density barrier in fusion plasma. The experiment confirmed that plasma can remain stable even at extreme densities if its interaction with the reactor walls is carefully controlled. This finding removes a major obstacle that has slowed progress toward fusion ignition. The advance could help future fusion reactors produce more power.

Commentary: The quantum era crept up while you were watching AI

The sheer pace of quantum activity from tech firms in 2025 would have been unthinkable even five years ago, says Catherine Thorbecke for Bloomberg Opinion.

Scientists create Bose-Einstein condensate leading to a new fifth state of matter

In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ ...

The Quantum era crept up while you were watching AI

Step aside, artificial intelligence. Another transformative technology with the potential to reshape industries and reorder geopolitical power is finally moving out of the lab.

Quantum spins team up to create stable, long-lived microwave signals

When quantum particles work together, they can produce signals far stronger than any one particle could generate alone. This ...

A dust-sized device could supercharge quantum computers

A device smaller than a grain of dust is emerging as a surprisingly powerful candidate to reshape how quantum computers are built and scaled. Instead of relying on room-filling optics and fragile lab ...

Quantum 2.0 by Paul Davies: An engaging and accessible account of the quantum world

A rewarding book that offers a cogent look at the science’s history and the second quantum revolution that’s under way ...

Physicists Turn Quantum Chaos Into Something Surprisingly Useful

Long considered a serious technical challenge, superradiance could actually help quantum devices go even further.

Einstein’s century-old challenge to Bohr settled by quantum test

God does not play dice with the universe,” Albert Einstein famously declared in 1927, sparking one of the most enduring ...

Alain Aspect, Nobel laureate in physics: ‘Einstein was so smart that he would have had to recognize quantum entanglement’

The pioneer of quantum computing talks about how Albert Einstein would have reacted to his experiments, the hype around the technology, and the parallels between physics and his new hobby: magic

Scientists Produced a Particle of Light That Simultaneously Accessed 37 Different Dimensions

Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state ...

A quantum loophole could rewrite space travel, scientists reveal more

Physicists are quietly rewriting the rulebook for how we might cross the gulf between stars, not by bolting bigger rockets to ...

Show HN: A minimalist LLM plugin for tmux

tmux-llm is an experimental LLM user interface that is: - minimal (no chat, no history, no replies, not even an input field) - universal (available in all your terminal applications) - transparent (the only context sent to an LLM is what you see on the screen) Basically, you can hit Ctrl+G at any time and get a tmux pop-up with an LLM's reply based on whatever is currently in your terminal. If you want, you can also select a specific part of the terminal contents. That's it.Clear

Show HN: A Triton windowing test with ray tracing and GUI

I've been recently testing GPU kernel dev with Triton; however, I couldn't find a graphics sample that combines an update loop with windowing, mouse-keyboard interactivity, etc., so I decided to give it a shot with single-sphere ray tracing and ImGui. Unfortunately, I couldn't get to zero-shot copy with CUDA & WSLg (since I am running on WSL2), so it defaults to a host copy for framebuffer unless you enable the WIP flag. Any feedback or contributions for a zero-copy pipeline (

Show HN: I made presets for Darktable which mimic Fujifilm's Film Simulations

Fujifilm cameras make really beautiful JPEGs thanks to their Film Simulation feature (where they mimic the look of certain analogue film types), but sometimes I want to do things for which you need the RAW files (like sharpening or local contrast effects or white balance fixes or whatever else would suffer under 8-bit/channel and/or JPEG artifacts).darktable is my RAW editor of choice, but it doesn't make your edits look like the out-of-camera JPEGs by default. Quite the contrary,

What next after react/Next.js in webdev world?

Has web development reached its saturation? The present popular consensus is that "jquery is old, react is new". But as time passes and years turn into decades, the relative difference between jquery and react will become less important, they're both quite old from today's perspective.Of course, there is AI, data science, blockchain, etc. but those are different fields. Has webdev itself turned into something like civil or mechanical engineering - a matured field with steady