Yet more qubit tech: New quantum dot options, diamond vacancies
If you follow quantum computing news for long enough, it can start to seem like any quantum system that can alternate between two well-separated energy states can be used as…
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers Field of Honeycomb Textures
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Curiosity Discovers a Field of Martian Polygons NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS As NASA’s Curiosity rover recently began climbing up a Martian…
What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?
Every ancient language that has ever been deciphered needed an anchor. Usually that’s a bilingual text, like the Rosetta Stone, or a known relative to compare it to. Linear A,…
Reaction wheel failures leave Swift rescue mission spinning in orbit
Nearly a month since its launch, a first-of-its-kind commercial satellite built to save NASA’s Swift gamma-ray telescope from a fiery reentry is having problems of its own, the agency announced…
We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face
Last week’s unprecedented security event in which two OpenAI security hacking models trespassed into the network of fellow AI company Hugging Face was enabled by exploiting one or more zero-day…
Study: Dinosaurs were charbroiled after Chicxulub impact
Some 66 million years ago, an asteroid impact wiped out three-quarters of all plant and animal species on Earth, most notably taking down the dinosaurs. But exactly how that impact…
Strait of Hormuz ship bottleneck could fuel invasive species nightmare
The ongoing closure of the Strait of Hormuz amid the United States’ war with Iran may not only be causing problems for the global economy. Marine scientists now warn that…
Breakthrough process 3D prints contact lenses in 20 minutes
Today’s 3D printers can make everything from parts to fix annoying ceiling fan chains to wheelchairs that can help turtles walk. Now, advanced 3D printing technology is being used to…
Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms
Microsoft is introducing new AI tools designed to help customers continuously streamline and automate the process of identifying and reducing their exposure to security risks. The new tools come less…
Information isn’t sterile. It’s stranger than you think.
Excerpted from How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information by Thomas S. Mullaney with permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2026 by…