Quobly Closes €115 Million ($133.5 Million USD) Series A to Industrialize Silicon-Spin Qubit Processors
Grenoble‑based Quobly closed a €115 million ($133.5 million) Series A round led by Bpifrance, SEALSQ and STMicroelectronics to industrialize its silicon‑spin‑qubit processors. The financing builds on a €19 million ($22 million) seed phase and will fund FD‑SOI wafer fabrication, packaging and commercial delivery. Quobly’s architecture uses 300 mm FD‑SOI transistors on standard semiconductor lines, differentiating it from superconducting or trapped‑ion platforms. The firm aims to launch a cloud‑accessible Alloy Pioneer system by late 2026 and deliver on‑premise racks for data centers in 2027.
Dynamic Nanogates Let Longer Molecules Pass Faster Through Flexible Pores
A team led by Professors Shuichi Hiraoka and Masanori Tachikawa used self‑assembled molecular nanocubes to probe how molecules traverse dynamic nanoscale pores. Their experiments revealed that, contrary to macroscopic intuition, longer linear alkanes pass through these flexible gates faster than...
Breakthrough Ovarian Cancer Drug Offers Patients More Time and Better Quality of Life
The NHS has approved mirvetuximab soravtansine, an antibody‑drug conjugate that targets folate‑receptor‑alpha, for platinum‑resistant ovarian, peritoneal and fallopian‑tube cancers. Clinical data show median survival extending from 12.8 to 16.5 months with fewer side‑effects, and the treatment is administered every three...
Radio Scans Find No Evidence of Alien Tech From Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas
The SETI Institute completed a seven‑hour radio survey of interstellar comet 3I/Atlas and found no evidence of alien technology. Out of roughly 74 million narrow‑band signals detected, only about 200 survived initial filtering, and all were traced to Earth‑based sources or...
SNMMI Unveils 2026 Image of the Year
The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging named a whole‑body PET image using the novel radiotracer ¹⁸F‑GP1 as its 2026 Image of the Year. The tracer directly visualizes blood clots, detecting deep‑vein thrombosis and concurrent pulmonary embolism with accuracy...
New Data Support Pimicotinib as Durable for Rare Tenosynovial Giant Cell Tumor
Long‑term data presented at ASCO 2026 confirm that the oral CSF‑1R inhibitor pimicotinib delivers durable tumor shrinkage and functional gains in patients with tenosynovial giant cell tumor (TGCT). In the phase 3 MANEUVER trial, objective response rates hovered around 75‑80% across...
Nanomagnets Control Diamond Qubits, Pointing to More Scalable Quantum Hardware
Virginia Commonwealth University researchers demonstrated coherent control of nitrogen‑vacancy (NV) diamond qubits using 200‑nanometer nanomagnets driven by acoustic waves. The nanomagnets enable precise, localized spin manipulation, overcoming the cross‑talk limitations of traditional wire‑antenna methods. This breakthrough points to a more...
Acoramidis Shows Durable Benefit at 54 Months in ATTR-CM
Acoramidis (Attruby) demonstrated sustained reductions in all‑cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality, and first cardiovascular hospitalization through 54 months in an open‑label extension of the ATTRibute‑CM trial. The extension enrolled 389 patients, comparing continuous treatment with delayed initiation after placebo crossover. Continuous...
Physical Fitness Is Linked to Brain Health in Young Adults, but the Effects Differ by Sex
A small Spanish study of 94 university students found that higher cardiorespiratory fitness, measured by VO₂ max, correlates with faster cognitive processing speed and a smaller cingulate cortex volume, which may signal healthy brain maturation. Sex‑specific patterns emerged: flexibility boosted...
Open-Source Software Unlocks Rapid DNA Structure Generation and Analysis in One Workflow
Computational chemists at the University of Amsterdam have released MDNA, an open‑source toolkit that generates atomic‑resolution DNA models and analyzes them within a single workflow. The software builds double‑stranded DNA on arbitrary 3D curves using a rigid‑base formalism and includes...
High Q Technologies and Creative Biostructure Partner to Deploy Quantum-Enabled EPR Spectroscopy
High Q Technologies and contract research firm Creative Biostructure have announced a strategic partnership to commercialize the FATHOM® quantum‑enabled electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) platform for drug‑discovery applications. The collaboration embeds a cryogenic quantum sensor into the EPR hardware, delivering microgram‑scale...
New Antibiotic, Manikomycin, Acts on Novel Ribosomal Target
Researchers at McMaster University have isolated a new antibiotic, manikomycin, from Streptomyces rimosus. The compound uniquely binds the E‑site of the bacterial ribosome’s large subunit, a target never exploited by existing drugs, and shows activity against multidrug‑resistant Enterobacteriaceae. The discovery...
Patients Whose Doctors Recommend AREDS2 Supplements Show Slower AMD Lesion Growth
A year‑long ARVO‑presented study found that patients whose physicians recommended AREDS2 supplements showed statistically significant reductions in three OCT biomarkers of age‑related macular degeneration lesion growth. The hypertransmission defect fell 6.9%, retinal pigment epithelium/outer retinal atrophy dropped 8.4%, and ellipsoid...
Armed with AI, Study Identifies Prey From Predator Crunching Sounds
Florida Atlantic University researchers have built an AI‑driven framework that automatically detects and classifies the crunching sounds made by predators such as whitespotted eagle rays when they crush hard‑shelled mollusks. The system first flags potential feeding events in massive underwater...
Alice Roberts: 'We Are Fundamentally, at the End of the Day, Animals'
British biological anthropologist Alice Roberts, now a professor of public engagement at the University of Birmingham, has released a new illustrated volume titled "Humans: The Evolution of a Species." The book, edited with contributions from an international team including journalist...
Rocket Goes Boom; so Do Moon Plans
On May 28, 2026 Blue Origin’s New Glenn heavy‑lift rocket exploded during a static‑fire test at Cape Canaveral, producing a dramatic mushroom cloud. The failure halts the company’s timeline for a lunar lander that was slated to support Amazon’s moon‑based logistics...
Atom Computing Reaches Quantum Error Correction Milestone with Toric Code Demonstration
Atom Computing demonstrated quantum error correction on its neutral‑atom platform using a toric‑code configuration, achieving sub‑threshold scaling and 90 successive stabilizer measurement cycles. This marks the first sustained multi‑round QEC on a neutral‑atom system, joining Google’s superconducting achievements. The milestone...
Next-Generation Computing Relies on Extremely Thin Semiconductors—Now There's a Better Way to Make Them
Researchers led by Prof. Cong Su have introduced an acid‑treated chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique that produces monolayer semiconductor crystals with quality comparable to the laboratory‑only Scotch‑tape method. By shifting the precursor environment from basic to acidic, the process anchors...
Scientists Surprised to Find Brightness "Gap" In Ancient Star Cluster
Astronomers using Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a distinct brightness gap in an ancient Milky Way globular cluster. The gap appears as a void in the cluster’s Hertzsprung‑Russell diagram, spanning roughly two magnitudes of luminosity. Researchers...
Researchers Study Impact Flashes to Detect Missile and Meteorite Composition
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists have demonstrated that the brief optical flash generated when a projectile strikes a target can be spectrally analyzed to reveal the projectile’s material composition. Using a high‑speed spectrometer and laser‑rangefinder, the team recorded over 50...
CERN’s New Chief on the Gamble that Could Fix Our Picture of Reality
Mark Thomson has taken the helm as CERN’s director general just as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) shuts down for a multi‑year upgrade. The lab is planning a £13 billion (~$16.6 billion) next‑generation collider to push beyond the Standard Model’s limits. Upgrades...
Brain Scans Shed Light on Why People with Autistic Traits Feel More Shame and Less Guilt
A new study in Personality Neuroscience examined why people with higher autistic traits report more shame and less guilt. Using resting‑state fMRI on 45 neurotypical Hong Kong adults, researchers identified the right frontal pole’s connectivity with cortical midline structures—especially the...
After Launch Pad Setback, Blue Origin Eyes New Glenn Return in 2026
Blue Origin suffered damage to the main support gantry at Cape Canaveral’s Launch Pad 36 during a recent launch attempt. CEO Dave Limp reported that the propellant tanks and nearby processing hangar emerged unscathed, and the gantry can be repaired...
Landmark Pancreatic Cancer Treatment Paves Way for Targeting Other Tricky Tumors
Revolution Medicines’ pan‑RAS inhibitor daraxonrasib more than doubled median overall survival in a phase III trial of 500 patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, extending life from 6.7 to 13.2 months. The drug uniquely disables all three RAS isoforms, overcoming a decades‑long...
Highlights of ASCO 2026: How Is Cancer Care Evolving?
At ASCO 2026, Revolution Medicine unveiled daraxonrasib, a KRAS‑off pill that halved death risk and doubled survival for metastatic pancreatic cancer in a phase‑3 trial of 500 patients. Johnson & Johnson’s Rybrevant Faspro earned Breakthrough Therapy designation, delivering a 42% response...
Ancient DNA Illuminates the Uniqueness of the Extinct Cave Lion
A new Cell study sequenced genomes from twelve Eurasian cave‑lion specimens dated 148,000 to 17,000 years ago, revealing that the extinct Panthera spelaea split from modern lions over a million years ago. By comparing these ancient genomes with 20 modern lion sequences,...
A Secret to Making a Queen Bee May Lie in the Wax Around It
Researchers published in Nature reveal that the wax surrounding a developing queen bee has distinct physical and chemical traits that influence her growth, challenging the long‑standing belief that royal jelly alone determines queen status. Analyses showed queen‑cell wax is softer,...
Microbial ‘Workforces’ Drive the Earth’s Underground Biosphere
A new study reveals that vast, previously hidden microbial communities act as a massive underground workforce, driving biogeochemical cycles beneath the Earth’s surface. Advanced metagenomic sequencing identified thousands of novel species that collectively process billions of tons of carbon and...
Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now “Magic” Gives It Gravity.
Physicists have identified a quantum property called “magic” as the missing ingredient that lets space‑time bend, linking quantum information theory to gravity. Building on holographic models where entanglement creates the fabric of space, Charles Cao and collaborators showed that non‑Clifford gates—sources...
Scientists Simulated a Nuclear Fireball and Found a Surprise in the Fallout
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recreated key aspects of a nuclear fireball using a plasma flow reactor to study how uranium, cerium and cesium vaporize, react, and condense. By varying cooling rates, they observed that thermal history dramatically changes...
Aspirin Use May Help Unmask Early Asymptomatic Bladder Cancer
A Danish cohort study of 50,771 aspirin initiators and 156,191 NSAID initiators found that aspirin users underwent more cystoscopies, revealing bladder tumors at earlier, less invasive stages. Compared with never‑users, aspirin initiators had similar cancer prevalence but a lower prevalence...
Solar Sails Edge Closer to Reality, but Interstellar Travel Is Another Story
A new Acta Astronautica study evaluates three solar‑sail concepts—Solar Cruiser, Project Svarog and Breakthrough Starshot—measuring how far current technology must advance to achieve each mission. The analysis shows Solar Cruiser is within reach, needing only a two‑ to three‑fold improvement,...
Rare Meteorite Provides Evidence of Giant Early Planet
A newly studied meteorite recovered from Antarctica contains a unique suite of isotopic signatures that point to the existence of a massive, now‑lost planetary body in the early Solar System. Laboratory analysis shows anomalous ratios of tungsten, molybdenum and oxygen...
Fermilab and Harmoniqs Integrate Open-Source Tools to Advance Qubit Control Optimization
Fermilab’s Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit (QICK) is now integrated with Harmoniqs’ open‑source pulse‑optimization software Piccolo.jl. The partnership lets users automatically fine‑tune control pulses for larger numbers of qubits, leveraging algorithms from robotics and aerospace. More than 500 scientists already rely...
NASA’s Mars Mission MAVEN Is Lost Forever
NASA announced that the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter, launched in 2013, is officially lost after contact was lost in early December 2025. Engineers observed unexpected rotation and a possible orbital shift, and subsequent attempts to reacquire the...
Scientists Demonstrate that AI Can Predict if You Are Reading a Taboo Word Just by Looking at Your Brain Waves
Researchers at Italian universities used EEG and a support‑vector‑machine algorithm to show that the brain processes taboo words differently from neutral or negative language. The study recorded 64‑channel brain activity from 35 participants reading 240 words and found distinct early...
This New Diabetes Pill Burns Fat without the Downsides of Ozempic
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University have unveiled an oral β₂‑agonist that boosts skeletal‑muscle metabolism, lowering blood glucose and promoting fat loss without the appetite suppression typical of GLP‑1 drugs like Ozempic. Early Phase I data from 48 healthy volunteers...
TACC Limited and NUS I-FIM Enter MOU to Advance Next-Generation Materials
TACC Limited, a subsidiary of HEG Limited, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National University of Singapore’s Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials (I‑FIM) to co‑develop graphene and other advanced nanomaterials. The agreement outlines joint research, AI‑driven discovery, talent...
Distant Blazar OP 313 Emits Very High-Energy Gamma Rays Above 100 GeV
An international team using the Large‑Sized Telescope prototype (LST‑1) at the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory detected very‑high‑energy (VHE) gamma‑ray emission above 100 GeV from the distant flat‑spectrum radio quasar OP 313 (z≈0.997). The flare observed in December 2023 reached 0.3 Crab Units, roughly...
Promising New Evidence Supports Ketogenic Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa Treatment
UC San Diego researchers reported that a 14‑week ketogenic diet trial was feasible, safe, and showed clinical benefit for adults with weight‑normalized or mildly underweight anorexia nervosa. Twenty‑two participants completed the protocol with an 82 % retention rate and no further...
Newly Discovered ‘Switchboard’ Enables the Brain to Create New Memories While Preserving Old Ones
Researchers have identified a neural circuit dubbed the "switchboard" that lets the brain encode fresh memories without erasing existing ones. Using optogenetic tools in mice, the team showed that activating this pathway preserves prior maze learning while supporting new task...
June 3, 1948: Hale Telescope Dedicated
The 200‑inch Hale Telescope, conceived by George Ellery Hale, was formally dedicated on June 3, 1948 at California's Palomar Observatory. Its massive glass mirror, whose grinding was paused during World II, was finally installed after the war, marking a triumph of post‑war engineering. The telescope’s...
IL-22 Boosts Intestinal Cells Guarding Mice From Cholera
Researchers published in Nature Microbiology that IL‑22 produced by gut ILC3s triggers a specialized subset of enterocytes and expands goblet cells, bolstering the small‑intestinal barrier against Vibrio cholerae. Using single‑cell RNA sequencing, they mapped the cellular response in infant mice...
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The Vela supernova remnant marks a stellar explosion that occurred roughly 12,000 years ago in the Vela constellation, briefly visible to early human observers. The blast expelled the star’s outer layers, generating a shock wave that still ripples through the...
Multi-Omic Atlas Advances Brain Organoid Engineering
A multi‑omic atlas mapping transcriptomic, epigenomic and proteomic profiles of human brain organoids has been released, covering over one million cells. The consortium, led by MIT and Harvard, identified previously unknown neuronal subtypes and disease‑relevant pathways, especially those tied to...
Habits Form Far Faster than Science Previously Thought, Research Shows
Johns Hopkins researchers published a study in Nature Communications showing that habits can emerge almost instantly, overturning the long‑standing view that they develop gradually through repeated actions. Using a novel real‑time mouse paradigm, the team observed a sudden switch from...
Astronomers Uncover Statistical Evidence for Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes
Astronomers have presented statistical evidence that recoiling supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can be identified by a measurable link between their velocity offsets and surrounding dust. By comparing the Doppler‑broadened emission from the Broad Line Region with the stationary Narrow Line...
Eden Offers Blooms to Support Conservation in the Seychelles
The Eden Project is launching the Seychelles busy lizzie (Impatiens ‘Ray of Hope’) for sale on June 8, priced at £10 (≈ $12.5). Each plant supports pollinators and offers long‑lasting colour for indoor and sheltered outdoor spaces. Forty percent of the profit...
Visual Experience Physically Shapes the Brain’s Feedback Loops
Researchers at the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme fitted juvenile mice with custom steel goggles that limited vision to a single orientation (45° or 135°) for over a month. Two‑photon imaging revealed that primary visual‑cortex neurons re‑tuned their orientation preferences to match...
A Sloth Can Take up to 30 Days to Digest a Single Leaf, the Slowest Recorded Digestion of Any Mammal...
Sloths, especially the three‑toed species, take between 11 and 30 days—averaging 16 days—to fully digest a single leaf, the slowest transit time recorded for any mammal. Their multi‑chambered stomach can contain up to 37% of their body mass, effectively keeping...