Roman Space Telescope exceeds pre-launch image expectations by nearly 30%
Engineers sharpened the Roman telescope's view by moving a mirror about one-sixteenth the width of a human hair, ahead of its survey of the universe.
Sciencedaily · +8 outlets
Google demonstrates error reduction in quantum computing's 'magic states'
The result addresses a key resource for fault-tolerant quantum computing, though coverage also questions how far the claimed advantage extends.
The Quantum Insider · +14 outlets
Harvard, Anthropic and QuEra use LLMs to design quantum circuits with up to 9,100x lower resource costs
The collaboration points to AI-assisted circuit design as a way to cut the resource overhead of near-term quantum hardware.
Quantum Computing Report · +3 outlets
Trump signs two quantum computing executive orders, boosting sector stocks
The orders add a policy tailwind to quantum hardware companies including IBM, D-Wave, Rigetti and Quantum Computing Inc.
Stocktwits · +13 outlets
James Webb finds stable recurring weather patterns on a turbulent world 20 light-years away
The exoplanet's atmosphere cycles through three recurring states driven by temperature changes and shifting clouds.
Sciencedaily · +2 outlets
Japan launches MMX mission to Mars's moon Phobos to return samples
The Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft, set to launch Oct. 20, aims to settle a century-old debate over the origin of Mars's moons.
Newscientist · +14 outlets
Webb detects a lopsided bulge in the atmosphere of scorching gas giant WASP-17b
Powerful winds redistribute material in the 1,300 light-year-distant planet's atmosphere, producing surprisingly asymmetrical structure.
Sciencedaily · +3 outlets
Scientists vote to abolish leap seconds from the universal clock
Officials have added 27 leap seconds since 1972; a meeting in France this week decided to end the practice.
Newscientist · +14 outlets
Hand-cranked device determines blood type and hematocrit in about one minute
The instrument aims to give trauma and field settings rapid access to transfusion-critical blood information.
Phys · +2 outlets
Global survey links financial hardship and unequal access to lower trust in science
Poor health care access, limited say over research priorities and uneven distribution of benefits are cited as drivers of waning confidence.
Phys · +14 outlets
WHO projects shisha smoking will cause 1 million new lung cancer cases by 2050
The estimate adds waterpipe smoking to the global tobacco burden outlook.
South China Morning Post · +7 outlets
Physicists report evidence of quantum 'Bethe strings' predicted nearly 100 years ago
The finding confirms a long-theorized many-body quantum state first proposed in the 1930s.
Live Science · +3 outlets
Astronomers find a starless hydrogen cloud that may be an isolated 'dark galaxy'
FAST radio telescope observations reveal a compact hydrogen mass with no visible stars, one of the best dark galaxy candidates yet.
Phys · +9 outlets
Microplastics and water interactions shown to damage cells, Los Angeles Times reports
New research traces a pathway by which plastic particles in water may harm cells.
Los Angeles Times · +2 outlets
Dementia diagnoses projected to reach 24.7 million new cases a year by 2050
The forecast underscores the growing global health burden from aging populations.
Medical News Today · +14 outlets
El Niño-driven drought has killed hundreds of children in Sudan
Drought linked to the Pacific climate pattern is causing hunger and disease across the region.
Newscientist · +14 outlets
Septuagenarian telescope array in Spain completed for extreme-universe studies
A Japan-led international team finished the new large telescope array, which will probe the most energetic phenomena in the universe.
The Brighter Side of News · +1 outlets
Astronomers find black hole jets follow a single universal scaling rule
Black holes of vastly different sizes appear to launch jets the same way, potentially explaining delayed eruptions after stars are devoured.
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