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IonQ Links Two Quantum Computers With Light for the First Time
The quantum computing company photonically connected two independent trapped-ion systems using entanglement — a first for commercial quantum hardware.
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NVIDIA Open-Sources First AI Models for Quantum Computing
NVIDIA's new Ising model family automates quantum processor calibration and delivers 2.5x faster error correction — and it's free for anyone to use.
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Eavor's Closed-Loop Geothermal Wins CleanTech of the Year
Canadian startup Eavor's underground loop system can harvest Earth's heat anywhere — no fracking, no water, no volcanic hotspot required.
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Solar Panels That Generate Power From Raindrops? It Works.
Spanish scientists have created a thin-film coating that lets solar panels harvest energy from both sunlight and falling rain — with a single drop producing over 100 volts.
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GEN-1 Robot AI Hits 99% Reliability Folding, Packing, and Fixing Things
Generalist's new physical AI model can fold laundry, pack phones, and service vacuums at production-level accuracy — and recover from mistakes on its own.
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Water-From-Air Tech Wins CleanTech Innovation Award
AirJoule's platform uses Nobel Prize-winning materials to extract pure drinking water from humid air — no pipes, wells, or infrastructure needed.
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Scientists Build First Quantum Battery That Charges With Light
Australian researchers built a laser-charged quantum battery that gets faster as it grows — flipping how conventional energy storage works.
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New Chip-Making Machine Prints 8nm Features in a Single Step
ASML's latest EUV lithography system can pack 2.9x more transistors per chip — a leap driven by surging AI demand.
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Samsung Posts Record $33B Quarterly Profit on AI Chip Boom
A six-fold jump in operating profit makes Q1 2026 Samsung's best quarter ever, driven by insatiable demand for AI memory chips.
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New Carbon Material Releases CO2 at 60°C, Slashing Capture Costs
Japanese scientists engineered 'viciazites' — carbon materials with precisely placed nitrogen atoms that capture CO2 and release it using barely any heat.
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Apple Turns 50: From Garage Startup to $3 Trillion Icon
Founded on April 1, 1976, Apple celebrated five decades with worldwide store events, an animated homepage, and a look back at the products that reshaped entire industries.
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New UTI Test Finds the Right Antibiotic in Under 6 Hours
A direct-from-urine test developed by UK researchers matched lab results in 97% of cases, cutting wait times from days to a single morning.
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UK Launches First Electric Mail Flights Across Scotland
Royal Mail, Loganair, and BETA Technologies flew an all-electric plane on a real postal route for the first time — Glasgow to Dundee.
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Scientists Shatter the Solar Cell Efficiency Ceiling with a 130% Quantum Yield
A team from Kyushu University and Johannes Gutenberg University achieved what was long thought impossible — extracting more energy carriers from sunlight than photons absorbed.
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UK Startup Achieves World-First Plasma Ignition Inside a Fusion Rocket Engine
British company Pulsar Fusion has achieved the first-ever plasma ignition inside a nuclear fusion rocket engine — a milestone that could one day shrink Mars travel from months to weeks.
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Norwegian Startup Raises $40M to Build Chips with Helium Atoms Instead of Light
Lace Lithography, backed by Microsoft and Atomico, has raised $40 million to develop a helium atom beam that could etch chip features 10 times smaller than today's most advanced technology.
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Arm Unveils Its First In-House Chip in 35 Years, Signaling a New Era for AI Infrastructure
After nearly 36 years of exclusively licensing chip designs to others, Arm Holdings has unveiled the AGI CPU — its first production-ready processor — built for AI data center inference and developed in partnership with Meta.
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Mushroom-Inspired Catalyst Converts Plastic Waste Into Vinegar Using Sunlight
Scientists at the University of Waterloo have developed a sunlight-powered system inspired by wood-rotting fungi that can transform common plastic waste directly into acetic acid — the key ingredient in vinegar and a valuable industrial chemical.
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Scientists Used 7,000 GPUs to Simulate a Quantum Chip in Unprecedented Detail
Researchers at Berkeley Lab harnessed nearly 7,000 GPUs on the Perlmutter supercomputer to create the most detailed simulation of a quantum processor chip ever achieved.
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Disney's Walking, Talking Olaf Robot Steals the Show at NVIDIA GTC 2026
A real-life Olaf from Frozen walked onstage alongside Jensen Huang at GTC 2026, previewing autonomous Disney theme park characters powered by open-source AI and physics simulation.
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UK Surgeon Removes Cancer From Patient 1,500 Miles Away in World-First Remote Robotic Surgery
A London surgeon successfully performed a prostate cancer removal on a patient in Gibraltar using a robotic system and high-speed fiber optics — marking the UK's first long-distance robotic operation.
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Sodium-Ion Batteries Hit the Road: The Cheaper, Safer Power Source Going Mainstream in 2026
Named one of MIT Technology Review's 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2026, sodium-ion batteries are moving from lab curiosity to mass production — with CATL and BYD leading the charge.
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A Lab Mistake at Cambridge Leads to a Breakthrough That Could Revolutionize Drug Development
Cambridge scientists accidentally discovered a light-powered chemical reaction that lets researchers modify complex drug molecules in minutes instead of months — without toxic chemicals.