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Automated AI system flags qubit drift and instability, speeding quantum calibration

NPL, the UK’s National Metrology Institute (NMI), plays a central role in providing accurate and trusted measurement across emerging technology. Within its Institute for Quantum Standards and Technology (IQST), the team is developing methods to characterize and calibrate quantum devices, particularly quantum computing.

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Confirming altermagnetism in an abundant mineral

Also known as magnetoelectronics, spintronics rely on electron spin rather than electron charge, as found in traditional electronics. Although spintronics is still an emerging field, spintronic technologies are already found in hard disk drives and giant magnetoresistance sensors used in industrial and automotive applications. Once the right foundational materials are discovered and verified, including economical […]

BWC: NYPD mounted unit officer, bystander nab purse-snatcher

As the officer and Kelly the horse galloped in pursuit, a bystander grabbed the fleeing suspect so the officer could make an arrest

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eROSITA disentangles the solar system’s X-ray glow from deep-space signals

Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics scientists have been able to disentangle the X-ray glow originating in our solar system from similar emission reaching us from deep space, using data from the SRG/eROSITA space telescope. Four sky maps obtained between 2019 and 2021 from a vantage point approximately 1.5 million km from Earth—approximately four times […]

Laser method unlocks 3,000-Kelvin thin-film synthesis for quantum materials

Thin films might not come up in conversation every day, but they are all around us. Take the metallic plastic films of chip bags, for example, or the anti-reflective coatings on eyeglasses. Even the coatings on pills that make them easier to swallow are thin films. Depositing extremely thin layers of materials in a consistent […]

Looking deep inside quarks: CMS test probes to 10⁻²⁰ meters and finds no inner structure

According to our current understanding of the universe, quarks are fundamental, point-like particles: basic building blocks that are not made up of smaller particles. A recent paper from the CMS Collaboration describes how it probed quarks to the scale of 10-20 meters to test this premise.

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Uranus’s two outer rings show starkly different origins

Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island are revealing new insight into the composition and origins of Uranus’s two outer rings. Using data from the Keck Observatory Archive (KOA), combined with observations taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers constructed the first complete […]

Boots on the moon and beyond. Where next after Artemis II mission success?

It is tempting to view the Artemis II splashdown as the exclamation point on a successful lunar mission. And from launch to completion, it was indeed a textbook voyage of discovery for four astronauts, shared with enthralled millions watching across the globe.

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BWC: Man fleeing in U-Haul crashes into oncoming traffic, points gun at Calif. cops before OIS

The suspect surrendered to Kern County Sheriff’s Office deputies after barricading himself and pointing a gun at them, prompting them to open fire

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‘Shots Fired’ podcast: How a principal ‘took the attack to him’ to stop a school shooter

After a former student opened fire inside an Oklahoma high school, “Shots Fired” hosts break down how the principal’s close-range response stopped the attack

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BWC: Rookie N.J. officer on his first solo shift helps save driver suffering medical emergency

A Washington Township officer on his first solo shift performed CPR on an unresponsive driver while fellow officers delivered multiple AED shocks after a crash

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Quantum Fourier transform reaches 52 qubits, shattering the previous 27-qubit record

The spin-off company ParityQC has implemented the largest quantum Fourier transform ever reported using an IBM quantum computer, thereby setting a new milestone on the path toward the industrial application of quantum computers. The quantum Fourier transform is a cornerstone algorithm with applications in cryptography, financial modeling, and materials science.

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The Dyatlov Pass Incident: What Really Killed 9 Hikers in 1959?

Nine experienced Soviet hikers died under baffling circumstances in the Ural Mountains. Their tent was slashed from the inside, bodies showed signs of extreme force with no external wounds, and one hiker was missing her tongue. Decades later, the truth remains terrifyingly unclear.

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Newly Authenticated 1947 Documents Describe Roswell Bodies at Wright-Patterson — The Cover-Up Memo Has Been Found

47 pages of authenticated 1947 Army Air Force documents describe ‘non-human biological specimens’ recovered at Roswell and transferred to Wright Field — and a memo explicitly ordering the weather balloon cover story.

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Scientists Deploy Military-Grade Equipment at The Stanley Hotel — The Data From Room 217 Is Inexplicable

A Colorado physics team deployed quantum magnetometers and aerospace-grade acoustic arrays at The Stanley Hotel. What they recorded in Room 217 at 2:17 AM has no conventional explanation.

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