Mohenjo-daro Shows Urban Growth Did Not Deepen Inequality
A study of 309 homes at Mohenjo-daro finds that residential inequality fell as the Indus city developed, suggesting that shared infrastructure and collective urban management may have limited wealth gaps
Read the analysisIBM Opens Qiskit to High Performance Quantum Workflows
IBM has added native C API bindings to Qiskit v2.0, allowing Fortran, C++ and Julia programs to build and manipulate quantum circuits through Qiskit's Rust core without requiring Python as an intermediary.
Hyperbolic Surface Codes Push Quantum Error Correction Toward Modular Hardware
A University of Saskatchewan preprint describes geometry-optimized hyperbolic surface-code families, a routing algorithm for modular hardware, and circuit-level simulations of noisy inter-chip links
Radar Maps Possible Hidden Chambers Beneath Italy's Cave of Venuses
Ground-penetrating radar and electrical resistivity surveys at Italy's Grotta delle Veneri have detected underground anomalies that may connect with the known cave system but are not yet confirmed chambers