Using the same laser setup to entangle dual-type qubits. Credit: Chenxi Wang and Chuanxin Huang. To develop scalable and reliable quantum computers, engineers and physicists will need to devise effective…
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key facts about Xiaohongshu, the Chinese app taking the US by storm
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In the days leading up to a proposed US government ban on the social media platform TikTok, American users have turned to another Chinese-owned app, Xiaohongshu.…
Hand-feeding squirrels accidentally changed their skulls
Soft diet, weak jaws. If red squirrels eat too many peanuts, their jaws end up weaker than the jaws of squirrels eating natural diets, researchers report January 15 in Royal…
Global experts propose major overhaul of obesity diagnosis, going beyond BMI to define when obesity is a disease
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A global Commission, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology and endorsed by more than 75 medical organizations around the world, presents a novel, nuanced approach…
Fast control methods enable record-setting fidelity in superconducting qubit
In an artist’s impression of a recent MIT experiment, a central sphere represents a qubit, which is irradiated by two control signals: charge (blue) and flux (purple). These control signals…
Here’s what NASA is sending to the moon on Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander
Firefly Aerospace’s first mission to the moon is poised to launch in the early morning hours on Jan. 15. The company’s Blue Ghost lunar lander is sharing a payload bay…
Image: Earth in far-ultraviolet
Credit: NASA On April 21, 1972, NASA astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 mission, took a far-ultraviolet photo of Earth with an ultraviolet camera. Young’s original black-and-white…
Oldest known three-dimensional map discovered at the Ségognole 3 rock shelter
Archaeologists from the Mines Paris – PSL Centre of Geosciences, working in collaboration with experts from the University of Adelaide, have discovered what may be the world’s oldest three-dimensional map…
Stretchable microelectrode array enables non-invasive signal monitoring in organoids
Image of highly stretchable MEA (sMEA) with protruding microelectrodes. Credit: The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) A KAIST research team has developed a highly stretchable microelectrode array…
