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NASA's Artemis II launched four astronauts toward the Moon for the first time in 53 years. The AI and communications systems keeping them alive represent a generational leap from Apollo, and a JPL experiment three months ago hints at where it's all heading.
Loughborough University physicists built a memristor chip that processes AI tasks using material physics instead of software, achieving up to 2,000x energy savings on time-series data, with implications for edge devices, robotics, and sustainable AI.
An international team used IBM quantum processors to synthesize and characterize C₁₃Cl₂, a molecule with half-Möbius topology never before observed or predicted, then proved only quantum simulation could explain its behavior.
University of Pittsburgh physicists replicated four landmark topological quantum computing experiments and found simpler explanations for all of them, raising hard questions about the foundation of a technology Microsoft and others are betting billions on.
Cambridge researchers built hafnium oxide memristors with switching currents a million times lower than conventional devices, a material breakthrough that could cut AI hardware energy use by 70%.
SEEQC's Nature Electronics paper demonstrates integrated digital control at 10mK—attacking quantum computing's biggest scaling bottleneck at the source.
Caltech converts qubits into sound waves, achieving 30x longer quantum storage — a potential key to unlocking the quantum internet and distributed quantum AI.
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