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November 20, 2025

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Light Has Been Hiding a Magnetic Secret for Nearly 200 Years

Nov. 20, 2025 New research shows that light’s magnetic field is far more influential than scientists once believed. The team found that this magnetic component significantly affects how light rotates as it passes through certain materials. Their work challenges ...

Quantum Computers Just Simulated Physics Too Complex for Supercomputers

Nov. 19, 2025 Researchers created scalable quantum circuits capable of simulating fundamental nuclear physics on more than 100 qubits. These circuits efficiently prepare complex initial states that classical computers cannot handle. The achievement demonstrates a ...

Princeton’s New Quantum Chip Marks a Major Step Toward Quantum Advantage

Nov. 17, 2025 A Princeton team built a new tantalum-silicon qubit that survives for over a millisecond, far surpassing today’s best devices. The design tackles surface defects and substrate losses that have limited transmon qubits for years. Easy to integrate ...

AI Creates the First 100-billion-star Milky Way Simulation

Nov. 16, 2025 Researchers combined deep learning with high-resolution physics to create the first Milky Way model that tracks over 100 billion stars individually. Their AI learned how gas behaves after supernovae, removing one of the biggest computational ...

A Single Beam of Light Runs AI with Supercomputer Power

Nov. 16, 2025 Aalto University researchers have developed a method to execute AI tensor operations using just one pass of light. By encoding data directly into light waves, they enable calculations to occur naturally and simultaneously. The approach works ...

Brain-like Learning Found in Bacterial Nanopores

Nov. 11, 2025 Scientists at EPFL have unraveled the mystery behind why biological nanopores, tiny molecular holes used in both nature and biotechnology, sometimes behave unpredictably. By experimenting with engineered versions of the bacterial pore aerolysin, ...

Stanford Discovers an Extraordinary Crystal That Could Transform Quantum Tech

Nov. 9, 2025 Stanford scientists found that strontium titanate improves its performance when frozen to near absolute zero, showing extraordinary optical and mechanical behavior. Its nonlinear and piezoelectric ...

Breakthrough Links Magnetism and Electricity for Faster Tech

Nov. 5, 2025 Engineers at the University of Delaware have uncovered a way to bridge magnetism and electricity through magnons—tiny waves that carry information without electrical current. These magnetic waves can generate measurable electric signals within ...

Scientists Discover a Way Simulate the Universe on a Laptop

Oct. 30, 2025 Scientists have developed a groundbreaking tool called Effort.jl that lets them simulate the structure of the universe using just a laptop. The team created a system that dramatically speeds up how researchers study cosmic data, turning what once ...

A Revolutionary DNA Search Engine Is Speeding Up Genetic Discovery

Oct. 28, 2025 ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows researchers to search trillions of DNA and RNA ...

Breakthrough Optical Processor Lets AI Compute at the Speed of Light

Oct. 28, 2025 Researchers at Tsinghua University developed the Optical Feature Extraction Engine (OFE2), an optical engine that processes data at 12.5 GHz using light rather than electricity. Its integrated diffraction and data preparation modules enable ...

Stanford’s Tiny Eye Chip Helps the Blind See Again

Oct. 22, 2025 A wireless eye implant developed at Stanford Medicine has restored reading ability to people with advanced macular degeneration. The PRIMA chip works with smart glasses to replace lost photoreceptors using infrared light. Most trial participants ...

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Nanoscale Trick Makes “dark Excitons” Glow 300,000 Times Stronger

Nov. 19, 2025 Researchers have found a way to make “dark excitons”—normally invisible quantum states of light—shine dramatically brighter by trapping them inside a tiny gold-nanotube optical cavity. This ...

Physicists Reveal a New Quantum State Where Electrons Run Wild

Nov. 17, 2025 Electrons can freeze into strange geometric crystals and then melt back into liquid-like motion under the right quantum conditions. Researchers identified how to tune these transitions and even ...

Breakthrough Shows Light Can Move Atoms in 2D Semiconductors

Nov. 14, 2025 Laser light can physically distort Janus TMD materials, revealing how their asymmetrical structure amplifies light-driven forces. These effects could power breakthroughs in photonic chips, sensors, ...

A Radical Upgrade Pushes Quantum Links 200x Farther

Nov. 13, 2025 Scientists have developed a new way to build rare-earth crystals that boosts quantum coherence to tens of milliseconds. This leap could extend quantum communication distances from city blocks to ...

Artificial Neurons That Behave Like Real Brain Cells

Nov. 5, 2025 USC researchers built artificial neurons that replicate real brain processes using ion-based diffusive memristors. These devices emulate how neurons use chemicals to transmit and process signals, ...

Too Much Screen Time May Be Hurting Kids’ Hearts

Nov. 1, 2025 More screen time among children and teens is linked to higher risks of heart and metabolic problems, particularly when combined with insufficient sleep. Danish researchers discovered a measurable ...

Living Computers Powered by Mushrooms

Oct. 26, 2025 Scientists have found that mushrooms can act as organic memory devices, mimicking neural activity while consuming minimal power. The Ohio State team grew and trained shiitake fungi to perform like ...

AI Turns X-Rays Into Time Machines for Arthritis Care

Oct. 22, 2025 Researchers at the University of Surrey developed an AI that predicts what a person’s knee X-ray will look like in a year, helping track osteoarthritis progression. The tool provides both a visual ...

Quantum Crystals Could Spark the Next Tech Revolution

Oct. 16, 2025 Auburn scientists have designed new materials that manipulate free electrons to unlock groundbreaking applications. These “Surface Immobilized Electrides” could power future quantum computers or ...

Scientists Build Artificial Neurons That Work Like Real Ones

Oct. 14, 2025 UMass Amherst engineers have built an artificial neuron powered by bacterial protein nanowires that functions like a real one, but at extremely low voltage. This allows for seamless communication ...

90% of Science Is Lost. This New AI Just Found It

Oct. 13, 2025 Vast amounts of valuable research data remain unused, trapped in labs or lost to time. Frontiers aims to change that with FAIR² Data Management, a groundbreaking AI-driven system that makes datasets ...

Quantum Simulations That Once Needed Supercomputers Now Run on Laptops

Oct. 12, 2025 A team at the University at Buffalo has made it possible to simulate complex quantum systems without needing a supercomputer. By expanding the truncated Wigner approximation, they’ve created an ...

Scientists Accidentally Create a Tiny “rainbow Chip” That Could Supercharge the Internet

Oct. 7, 2025 Researchers at Columbia have created a chip that turns a single laser into a “frequency comb,” producing dozens of powerful light channels at once. Using a special locking mechanism to clean ...

Scientists Finally Found the “dark Matter” of Electronics

Oct. 4, 2025 Scientists at OIST have, for the first time, directly tracked the elusive “dark excitons” inside atomically thin materials. These quantum particles could revolutionize information technology, as ...

Quantum Chips Just Proved They’re Ready for the Real World

Sep. 28, 2025 Diraq has shown that its silicon-based quantum chips can maintain world-class accuracy even when mass-produced in semiconductor foundries. Achieving over 99% fidelity in two-qubit operations, the ...

Scientists Brew “quantum Ink” to Power Next-Gen Night Vision

Sep. 25, 2025 Toxic metals are pushing infrared detector makers into a corner, but NYU Tandon researchers have developed a cleaner solution using colloidal quantum dots. These detectors are made like “inks,” ...

Caltech’s Massive 6,100-Qubit Array Brings the Quantum Future Closer

Sep. 25, 2025 Caltech scientists have built a record-breaking array of 6,100 neutral-atom qubits, a critical step toward powerful error-corrected quantum computers. The qubits maintained long-lasting superposition ...

Scientists Unlock the Quantum Magic Hidden in Diamonds

Oct. 8, 2025 Researchers have found a way to extract almost every photon from diamond color centers, a key obstacle in quantum technology. Using hybrid nanoantennas, they precisely guided light from nanodiamonds ...

Scientists Just Made Atoms Talk to Each Other Inside Silicon Chips

Sep. 21, 2025 Researchers at UNSW have found a way to make atomic nuclei communicate through electrons, allowing them to achieve entanglement at scales used in today’s computer chips. This breakthrough brings ...

Scientists Build Micromotors Smaller Than a Human Hair

Sep. 18, 2025 Using laser light instead of traditional mechanics, researchers have built micro-gears that can spin, shift direction, and even power tiny machines. These breakthroughs could soon lead to ...

New Quantum Breakthrough Could Transform Teleportation and Computing

Sep. 12, 2025 Scientists have finally unlocked a way to identify the elusive W state of quantum entanglement, solving a decades-old problem and opening paths to quantum teleportation and advanced quantum ...

Google's Quantum Computer Creates Exotic State Once Thought Impossible

Sep. 12, 2025 Physicists have achieved a breakthrough by using a 58-qubit quantum computer to create and observe a long-theorized but never-before-seen quantum phase of matter: a Floquet topologically ordered ...

Light-Powered Chip Makes AI 100 Times More Efficient

Sep. 9, 2025 Artificial intelligence is consuming enormous amounts of energy, but researchers at the University of Florida have built a chip that could change everything by using light instead of electricity for ...

Tiny Magnetic Spirals Unlock the Future of Spintronics

Sep. 14, 2025 Scientists in Korea have engineered magnetic nanohelices that can control electron spin with extraordinary precision at room temperature. By combining structural chirality and magnetism, these ...

AI Has No Idea What It’s Doing, but It’s Threatening Us All

Sep. 7, 2025 Artificial intelligence is reshaping law, ethics, and society at a speed that threatens fundamental human dignity. Dr. Maria Randazzo of Charles Darwin University warns that current regulation fails ...

The Quantum Internet Just Went Live on Verizon’s Network

Sep. 26, 2025 Penn engineers have taken quantum networking from the lab to Verizon’s live fiber network, using a silicon “Q-chip” that speaks the same Internet Protocol as the modern web. The system pairs ...

Scientists Turn Spin Loss Into Energy, Unlocking Ultra-Low-Power AI Chips

Aug. 25, 2025 Scientists have discovered that electron spin loss, long considered waste, can instead drive magnetization switching in spintronic devices, boosting efficiency by up to three times. The scalable, ...

Scientists Create Scalable Quantum Node Linking Light and Matter

Aug. 29, 2025 Quantum scientists in Innsbruck have taken a major leap toward building the internet of the future. Using a string of calcium ions and finely tuned lasers, they created quantum nodes capable of ...

Scientists Just Cracked the Quantum Code Hidden in a Single Atom

Aug. 22, 2025 A research team has created a quantum logic gate that uses fewer qubits by encoding them with the powerful GKP error-correction code. By entangling quantum vibrations inside a single atom, they ...

Scientists Build Quantum Computers That Snap Together Like LEGO Bricks

Sep. 8, 2025 Like LEGO for the quantum age, researchers have created modular superconducting qubits that can be linked with high fidelity. This design allows reconfiguration, upgrades, and scalability, marking a ...