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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

Massive asteroid impact 6.3 million years ago left giant glass field in Brazil

For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil — mysterious glassy fragments forged when a powerful extraterrestrial object slammed into Earth about 6.3 million years ago. Named “geraisites” after Minas Gerais, where they were first found, these dark, aerodynamic droplets of natural glass stretch across more than 900 kilometers and may mark one of South America’s most significant ancient impact events.

Show HN: The rust of Knox:anti-ASIC lattice L1 built by a dad and his 11yo son

I’ve been digging through the repository for the KNOX Protocol (v1.3.0), and while the pure-lattice cryptography is the headline, the actual engineering flex is the architecture. This father (ULT7RA) and his 11-year-old son(Rockasaurus Rex) didn't just write a whitepaper; they built the entire Layer-1 core from scratch in bare-metal Rust.If you are building a 100% post-quantum chain with no classical hashing, Rust isn't just a stylistic choice—it’s the only way this network survives.He

For the first time, light mimics a Nobel Prize quantum effect

Scientists have pulled off a feat long considered out of reach: getting light to mimic the famous quantum Hall effect. In their experiment, photons drift sideways in perfectly defined, quantized steps—just like electrons do in powerful magnetic fields. Because these steps depend only on nature’s fundamental constants, they could become a new gold standard for ultra-precise measurements. The discovery also hints at tougher, more reliable quantum photonic technologies.

A faint cosmic hum could solve the Universe’s expansion mystery

Astronomers have long known the universe is expanding—but exactly how fast remains one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology. Different techniques for measuring the Hubble constant stubbornly disagree, creating the so-called “Hubble tension.” Now researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Chicago have unveiled a bold new way to weigh in on the debate using gravitational waves—the faint ripples in spacetime produced by colliding black holes.

Jupiter’s moons may have formed with the ingredients for life

Jupiter’s icy moons may have been seeded with the chemical ingredients for life from the very beginning. An international team of scientists modeled how complex organic molecules—essential building blocks for biology—could have formed in the swirling disk of gas and dust around the young Sun and later been carried into Jupiter’s own moon-forming disk. Their results suggest that up to half of the icy material that built moons like Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto may have delivered freshly made org

UEC Research and Innovation newsletter highlights breakthroughs in neuroscience, robotics, augmented reality, quantum physics, and global collaboration

UEC Research and Innovation newsletter highlights breakthroughs in neuroscience, robotics, augmented reality, quantum physics, and global collaboration ...

The unprecedented link between quantum physics and artificial intelligence

Light does not “think” in any human sense. Still, under the right conditions, it can behave in a way that looks uncannily like a memory system.

Quantum tech beats Russian satellite jamming in new arms race

U.S. government contractor Q-CTRL told Newsweek its quantum sensors would be deployed later this year as GPS jamming ...

World-first quantum-inspired optimizer now rides on a mobile robot

Engineers at Toshiba and MIRISE report embedding a quantum-inspired optimization system directly onto a mobile robot, ...

Dynamical freezing can protect quantum information for near-cosmic timescales

Preserving quantum information is key to developing useful quantum computing systems. But interacting quantum systems are chaotic and follow laws of thermodynamics, eventually leading to information ...

Physicist: I Believe You Can Enhance Your Consciousness—And Expand Your Perception Into a “Different Realm”

Thanks to advances in science, we’re now able to move beyond Bohm and Bohr’s theorizing; we can test their hypotheses through ...

When light 'thinks' like the brain: The connection between photons and artificial memory

An international study has revealed a surprising connection between quantum physics and the theoretical models underlying ...

Scientists Believe Quantum Computers AreAbout to Cross a Major Line

We began this inquiry by looking at the mismatch between our computers and our brains. We realized that we were trying to run ...

Google Claims Quantum Error Correction Milestone With “Willow” Chip

There is no shortage of top-name – and even lesser known – companies pursuing the white whale of developing a quantum computer that can run workloads and solve problems that today’s most powerful ...

How to improve the performance of qubits: Super-fast fluctuation detection achieved

Using commercially available technology and innovative methods, researchers at NBI have pushed the limits of how fast you can ...

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through February 28)

ComputingBreaking Encryption With a Quantum Computer Just Got 10 Times EasierKarmela Padavic-Callaghan | New Scientist ($)“In 2019, Craig Gidney at Google Quantum AI co-authored a paper that reduced [the requirement to break RSA encryption] from 170 million to 20 million quantum bits, or qubits. And in 2025, Gidney devised a way to slash that number to less than a million qubits. Now, Paul Webster at Iceberg Quantum in Australia and his colleagues have managed to decrease the number even f

Heavier hydrogen makes silicon T centers shine brighter for quantum networks

Quantum technologies, computers or other devices that operate leveraging quantum mechanical effects, rely on the precise control of light and matter. Over the past decades, quantum physicists and material scientists have been trying to identify systems that can reliably generate photons (i.e., light particles) and could thus be used to create quantum technologies.

This plastic is made from milk and it vanishes in 13 weeks

Scientists racing to tackle plastic pollution have created a surprising new contender: a biodegradable packaging film made partly from milk protein. Researchers at Flinders University blended calcium caseinate with starch and natural nanoclay to form a thin, durable material designed to mimic everyday plastic. In soil tests, the film fully broke down in about 13 weeks, pointing to a realistic alternative for single-use food packaging.

Fix MacBook Pro Space Key Stuck Problem

Troubleshooting a Confusing Dumb Problem