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Visualization of the structure of the level-3 many-hypercube code. Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adp6388 In work published in Science Advances, Hayato Goto from the RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing in Japan has proposed a new quantum error correction approach using what he calls “many-hypercube codes.” This approach, which turns out to have an elegant … Read more

Map of Late Neolithic sites. Credit: Communications Biology (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-06676-7 Since the catastrophic pandemics of the Middle Ages, one disease has almost proverbially symbolized contagion and death: the plague. It is now known that the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis has been present in Central and Northern Europe for more than 5,000 years. However, it … Read more

Codi overcoming a slope in rocky terrain. Credit: Airbus Rover trials in a quarry in the U.K. showing a four-wheeled rover, known as Codi, using its robotic arm and a powerful computer vision system to pick up sample tubes. The rover drives to the samples with an accuracy of 10 cm, constantly mapping the terrain. … Read more

Experimental setup of the FSO outdoor experiments. Tunable laser source (TLS), driving amplifier (DA), arbitrary waveform generator (AWG), transmitter digital signal processing (Tx-DSP), erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA), bandpass filter (BPF), optical spectrum analyzer (OSA), polarization division multiplexing emulator (PDM), high power optical amplifier (HPOA), real time controller (RTC), deformable mirror (DFM), wafefront sensor (WFS), optical … Read more

The first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. It was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an array which linked together eight existing radio observatories across the planet to form a single “Earth-sized” virtual telescope. Credit: EHT Collaboration The origins of aptly named supermassive black holes—which … Read more

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Severe drought in the American Southwest and Mexico and more severe wet years in the Northeast are the modern norm in North America, according to new research—and the analysis suggests these seasonal patterns will be more extreme in the future. The middle of the United States, meanwhile, can expect bigger swings … Read more

China has endured a summer of extreme weather and heat waves across much of its north and west. China logged its hottest August in more than six decades last month, its national weather service said, after the country endured a summer of extreme weather and heat waves across much of its north and west. China … Read more

Visualization of the gas shroud of starburst galaxy IRAS 08339+6517. Credit: Cristy Roberts ANU/ASTRO 3D If this galaxy is typical, then the study, published today in Nature Astronomy, indicates that our galaxy is already interacting with its closest neighbor, Andromeda. Where does a galaxy end and deep space begin? It seems like a simple question … Read more