Research Updates
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University of Stuttgart plans autonomous robot teams for construction
University of Stuttgart researchers are designing SCALAR and COBRAS to assemble timber modules and lightweight space frames with coordinated robot teams while testing whether automation can reduce waste and site labor
Hubble Data Point to a Possible Planet Born After Its Star Died
Reanalyzed NASA Hubble spectroscopy and archival FUSE ultraviolet data reveal extreme niobium enrichment around the white dwarf HS 0209+0832, while TESS detected a 4.4-day brightness cycle consistent with-but not proving-the presence of a close-orbiting gas-giant candidate.
IBM Deepens India Partnerships Around Quantum Computing and AI
IBM is expanding its established research collaborations with IISc and IIT Bombay around quantum-classical workflows, agentic systems, sovereign AI infrastructure and Indic language models, while leaving performance gains and deployment outcomes to be demonstrated.
NASA Wing Glows Under Ultraviolet Light in Airflow Test
A NASA Langley test made a freely moving model wing glow pink-purple while high-speed cameras recorded full-field pressure changes in a low-oxygen wind-tunnel environment.
Nanometre Fabrication Shifts Explain Transmon Qubit Performance Gaps
A blinded study of 22 superconducting transmons links twofold T1 variation to nanometre-scale oxide and etch differences while finding no clear role for macroscopic surface defects
LuGo Cuts Quantum CFD Gate Counts by More Than 95 Percent
ORNL's LuGo framework moves heavy initialization onto Frontier before quantum state mapping and reduces a fluid-dynamics circuit from about 2 million gates to 91,000 across several hardware platforms
Webb Traces Planet Shattering Collisions Around Young Stars
James Webb and Spitzer observations of 21 rare extreme debris disks show how mineral fingerprints distinguish Mars-scale planetary impacts from smaller collisions that reshape young stellar systems
DC-Biased SQUID Stabilizes Multi-Photon Cat Qubits
Alice & Bob and ENS Lyon used a microvolt-scale DC-biased SQUID to control photon conversion between superconducting resonators and demonstrate multi-photon dissipation for cat-qubit stabilization.
Texas A&M Drone Carries More Than Twice Its Own Weight
Texas A&M aerospace students flew a 50-pound battery-powered drone carrying 110 pounds over four nautical miles in 12 minutes at the first DARPA Lift Challenge, demonstrating the limits and promise of lightweight heavy-lift engineering.
Quantum Sensor Network Research Wins $600,000 NSF Grant
A three-year NSF award, beginning June 1, 2026, will fund a Stony Brook and University of Hawaiʻi collaboration on entangled sensor nodes using squeezed-light photonics and diamond spin centers under realistic noise.
Infleqtion Links Neutral Atoms to Real-Time Error Decoding
Infleqtion and Riverlane plan to connect neutral-atom hardware with real-time quantum error-correction decoding in a UK engineering effort focused on latency and logical-qubit performance
Quantum Photonic Processor Survives Its First Orbit Test
A University of Vienna payload has demonstrated two-photon interference and programmable matrix execution in orbit, showing that integrated photonic quantum hardware can operate beyond the laboratory.
MIT Builds a Muscle-Powered Robot Thin Enough to Swim Mazes
MIT engineers have built a paper-thin biohybrid robot that swims through water using light-responsive muscle cells. Its maze test demonstrates controlled locomotion with minimal biological material, but not autonomous operation.
DirectHop Shows How Tiny Robots Could Hop Over Obstacles
University of Washington engineers built DirectHop, a roughly one-gram robot that can hop over a stair-like obstacle, recover after landing and prepare for another jump without relying on a spring.
IonQ QCBM Beats Classical Radar Change Detection Baselines
IonQ reports that a 20-qubit trapped-ion quantum generative model improved radar change detection on a high-resolution airfield dataset while matching classical methods on volcanic InSAR imagery
AI Design System Cuts Simulated Quantum Error Rates 14.6-Fold
QC Design says its Meridian platform reduced evaluated logical error rates across more than 100 fault-tolerance design tasks while testing architectures against hardware noise in simulation
Q-CTRL Outperforms IBM Error Suppression on 156-Qubit Heron
An arXiv benchmark on IBM's 156-qubit Heron processor finds Q-CTRL led exact-output sampling while Qedma delivered the lowest estimator error at a much higher QPU time cost
Q-CTRL Executes a 100-Qubit Quantum Fourier Transform
Q-CTRL has run a functional Quantum Fourier Transform on up to 100 physical qubits in an IBM Heron R3 processor while testing a compilation method designed to limit routing and noise.
Standing Wave Cooling Brings Trapped Ions Near Ground State
Cornell researchers used a 397 nm standing wave on a fabricated ion-trap chip to cool a single 40Ca+ ion near its motional ground state in 150 microseconds
Microsoft Builds Maryland Hub for Quantum Hardware Verification
Microsoft has opened a 15,000-square-foot Maryland center where DARPA can physically test Majorana 2 and research partners can develop quantum hardware, control systems, and software-without yet establishing a useful fault-tolerant machine.
A Fire Amoeba Sets a New Heat Limit for Complex Life
A NASA-supported study identifies an amoeba from California hot springs that reproduces at 63°C, remains active at 64°C and can recover after brief exposure to temperatures approaching 70°C.
Chandra Finds 84 Hypersoft X-ray Sources Across Six Nearby Galaxies
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has identified 84 hypersoft X-ray sources in six nearby galaxies. Their concentration of very low-energy X-rays may offer clues to Type Ia supernova progenitors and the ultraviolet radiation environment between galaxies.
Tiny Drones Navigate Dark Spaces With Artificial Whiskers
Researchers at Delft University of Technology demonstrated a tiny drone that uses pressure-sensitive artificial whiskers to navigate clear-wall test environments without relying on visual information.
IBM Hybrid Error Mitigation Cuts Quantum Sampling Overhead 63-Fold
IBM researchers tested a hybrid protocol on a 27-qubit superconducting processor and recovered Ising-model magnetization while reducing inferred error-mitigation sampling overhead by up to 63-fold
Diamond Spin Register Entangles Four Qubits in 14.8 Microseconds
University of Pennsylvania researchers entangled an electron spin with three nuclear memory qubits in diamond at room temperature using one dynamical decoupling sequence rather than a chain of pairwise gates
Hubble captures a spiral galaxy with a twisted core
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has imaged NGC 4698, a spiral galaxy in Virgo whose central bulge and inner rotation axis are set at right angles to its disk, hinting at a past shaped by external gas or a minor merger.
Riverlane opens US quantum error correction hub in Maryland
Riverlane has set up its US headquarters in Maryland's Discovery District to speed up real-time quantum error correction projects and work more closely with quantum hardware makers and academic researchers.
NASA tracks Earth's shifting center of mass with satellites
NASA scientists have measured how Earth's center of mass moves by millimeters each year as water, ice, and air shift across the globe, using satellite laser ranging and GPS data.
Brazilian Research Institute Orders On-Premises Superconducting Quantum Computer
IQM Quantum Computers will supply its IQM Spark superconducting quantum system to Brazil's Eldorado Research Institute, marking the first time a private research institution in South America has purchased and installed a quantum computer on site.
Trapped-ion quantum processor trims engineering simulation time by 14 percent
IonQ, Synopsys, and NVIDIA have linked a trapped-ion quantum processor with large-scale engineering simulation software, reporting up to 14.6% total runtime savings in benchmarked industrial workloads.
Youngest exoplanet yet found emerges from archival telescope data
Astronomers have identified Elias 2-24 b, the youngest known exoplanet, using direct imaging techniques and archival data from the Keck Observatory. The planet is less than a million years old and still sits within its birth disk.
Solar Storm Forces Historians to Revise Timeline of Early Technology Disruption
A new review of historical records has corrected the date of a well-known 19th-century train delay caused by a solar storm, offering a clearer picture of how early electrical systems responded to space weather.
Vampire white dwarfs can collapse into neutron stars under precise conditions
Researchers have modeled how certain white dwarfs feeding on companion stars can collapse into neutron stars if their mass and accretion rate fall within a narrow range, revealing a rare but physically distinct pathway for stellar evolution.
Falqon Systems launches multi-node quantum secure networks across Europe
Falqon Systems, formerly Q*Bird, is rolling out operational quantum secure networks in several European countries using measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution and hybrid key management.
US and UK Back Eight Teams to Engineer Molecular Quantum States
A new $10 million joint program from the US National Science Foundation and UK Research and Innovation will support eight research teams working to control quantum coherence and entanglement in complex molecular systems.
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