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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
Quantum advantage reassessed: More realistic benchmarks for quantum algorithms
Quantum advantage refers to the point at which a quantum computer solves a clearly defined task faster or more efficiently than any classical computer—or makes it solvable in the first place. For many ...
How Infleqtion’s NASA-driven revenue gives it an edge in quantum computing
Infleqtion says it remains on track to deliver a ‘utility-scale’ quantum computer later this year.
Pa. poised to lead in quantum computing field, state lawmakers hear
The commonwealth’s seven top-level research universities have formed the Keystone AI + Quantum Factory to collaborate and share resources to speed innovation in the field.
How Real Companies Are Navigating The Quantum Computing Journey
Quantum computing has spent a long time living in the future. For much of the past decade, the narrative has been consistent.
Quantum physics gets real at Science Gallery Bengaluru. Visitors can now touch and feel it
Science Gallery Bengaluru’s new show features 40 exhibits that use art, science and design to make the quantum world tangible ...
Utah launches quantum initiative to research atomic-level technology
Utah is on the road to exploring quantum technology, even though commercial quantum computers are a decade away.
Crystal symmetry controls hydrogen’s quantum tunnelling
“Our findings suggest that hydrogen transport can be controlled by tuning quantum tunnelling through crystal symmetry — for example by applying external strain,” he adds. “This capability opens up new ...
South Korea Targets Moon Landing, Quantum Breakthroughs by 2030
South Korea’s seven-part technology strategy sets targets for a 2030 robotic Moon landing, quantum computing, energy, biotech, and critical materials.
Amazon Web Services unveils Ocelot quantum computing chip
Amazon Web Services has unveiled its Ocelot chip based on a hardware-efficient quantum computing architecture. Fernando Brandão and Oskar Painter of AWS said in a blog post that the pair of silicon ...
Author Correction: Cretaceous bird from Brazil informs the evolution of the avian skull and brain
<p>Nature, Published online: 13 August 2026; <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10960-3">doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10960-3</a></p>Author Correction: Cretaceous bird from Brazil informs the evolution of the avian skull and brain
Scientists found a way to generate quantum entanglement using sunlight, not lasers
The research, which was published in Optica, does not suggest that sunlight can replace laser-based quantum sources. Those systems remain more precise and produce stronger results. But...
Show HN: Vqrotate – Drop-in rotation trick for VQ-VAEs
I implemented 'Restructuring Vector Quantization with the Rotation Trick' by fifty et al.and built a PyPI library for the ICLR 2025 Rotation Trick.The Rotation Trick replaces the Straight-Through Estimator (STE) with a geometric rotation of the gradient. It preserves angular information between the encoder output and codebook vector, leading to higher codebook utilization.I have also benchmarked it on audio.
Documented everything from paper to mathematics behind in \docs in github-repo
Show HN: Interspectr – automated interview prep generated from a job posting
I was always having this anxious feeling before the interview about not getting the job. Because of that, I tended to try to prep as much as I could to at least pass the first round of interview. However, interview prep research took time and was mostly the same thing: figure out what the company's dealing with, work out what the role is actually screening for, then write questions against that. When you have 2 or 3 interview invitations, you may need to spend quite some time to properly re
Uniaxial strain reveals new way to tune electron flow in altermagnet material
Altermagnetism is a new, third type of magnetism of great interest for spin-transport applications like computer memory. If properly harnessed, it could combine the benefits of the two existing types of magnetism, ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism, ultimately reducing or eliminating heat during information transfer and increasing the ability to miniaturize next-generation technologies. Rice University's Pengcheng Dai recently published a paper in Physical Review X describing the first succes
Human brain stimulation engages different gene programs in different cell types
<p>Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02473-w">doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02473-w</a></p>Electrical stimulation of the human brain is a promising strategy for slowing cognitive decline. The discovery of cell-type-specific gene programs that are induced in tandem with the activity of networks of neurons in the temporal cortex when it is stimulated could inform the development of therapeutic approaches using stimulation.
How the human brain can pursue two goals at the same time
<p>Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02395-7">doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02395-7</a></p>In the natural world, an animal can blend strategies so it can advance towards several goals at the same time. An engineering approach called control theory was used to infer people’s goals while they played a simple video game, and showed how three brain regions work together to implement goal blending.
Superconducting 2D cuprate with a single CuO<sub>2</sub> plane
<p>Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10857-1">doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10857-1</a></p>A high-quality, pristine monolayer cuprate superconductor with a single CuO2 plane is fabricated and used to identify two quantum critical phenomena emerging between the Mott insulating phase and the superconducting phase.
MIT selected to lead new NSF materials research center
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected MIT to establish and lead a new Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) focused on materials technologies for medical imaging, sustainable metals production, and next-generation semiconductors, according to an NSF announcement released July 30.Expected to provide $18 million in research funding over six years, the award brings together 16 research groups from nine departments across four institutions, including five MIT de
Graduate Student Proves a Quantum Uncertainty Principle for Fractals
At the quantum scale, tiny particles behave in bizarre ways. One reason for this is the uncertainty principle, which says that the more you know about where a quantum particle is, the less you can know about how fast it’s moving, and vice versa. Recently, this rule got a rare upgrade. The new uncertainty principle relates to fractals, shapes that remain equally complex no matter how much you…Source