Two superconducting qubits reached an entangled steady state through controlled dissipation instead of losing coherence to it.
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and University of Chicago researchers demonstrated a long-predicted route to remote entanglement in which relaxation drives two superconducting qubits toward a shared steady state. Their synthetic-squeezing technique uses a one-way waveguide and external drives to engineer the environment that normally destroys fragile quantum correlations. The laboratory result involves two qubits and does not itself demonstrate an arbitrarily long network, but it points toward entanglement that can be maintained without preparing a state and physically transporting it.
Conceptual SWEET-15 structural test; not a flight failure or production aircraft. Original editorial illustration generated with built-in Codex Image Gen for The Machine Press, 2026-07-18.
NASA's first representative composite truss-braced wing test matched predicted flight loads and failed at roughly 127 percent of its design limit.
NASA bent the 15-foot SWEET-15 structural article for months inside Armstrong Flight Research Center's Flight Loads Laboratory. Strain, load, and fiber-optic sensors confirmed computer-model predictions as the long composite wing and its supporting struts carried anticipated in-flight forces. Engineers then deliberately loaded it to failure; visible damage appeared near the trailing edge and upper cover at roughly 127 percent of the design limit load. The result validates a test article and manufacturing approach for possible fuel-saving aircraft, not a production airliner or an in-flight failure.
The island nation joined the space-exploration principles as their seventh African participant.
Mauritius signed the Artemis Accords in Ébène, committing to principles including peaceful and transparent exploration, aid, scientific-data access, noninterference, and preservation of historic sites. The agreement is a political commitment rather than a treaty or a mission assignment. This final text-only report fills the front rail beneath the feature.
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Wistar's preclinical platform makes bispecific T-cell engagers in the body and combines two ovarian-cancer targets.
Wistar researchers reported a knob-into-hole antibody design delivered as DNA, allowing cells to produce bispecific T-cell engagers after dosing. A two-target version is intended to reduce escape when a tumor loses one antigen. The work improved ovarian-cancer control in preclinical models; it is not evidence of safety or benefit in patients.
Across 143 species, sharper puncture tools traded penetration efficiency against resistance to bending and buckling.
Illinois researchers compared fangs, spines, tusks, thorns, teeth, and other biological puncture tools. Their models show why no single shape dominates: narrow tips enter efficiently but need geometry and material support to survive sideways loads. Rose prickles, scorpion stingers, and shark teeth were among high-performing compromises. The study is comparative mechanics, not a claim that the sampled structures are interchangeable.
Honey bee young temporarily suppress an essential odor receptor while intensive colony care supplies their needs.
A study in PNAS found reduced expression of a gene essential to odor detection in honey bee larvae, followed by the sophisticated olfactory capability seen in adults. Comparisons across bees support the interpretation that intensive social care relaxes the need for larvae to find food or avoid hazards themselves. The result links development and social evolution; it does not show that larvae have no chemical sensing at all.
An enzyme-free molecular bridge amplifies Chikungunya RNA detection on a portable lateral-flow format.
Chinese researchers built a two-round catalytic hairpin system that creates multiple binding sites before gold-platinum nanoparticles deepen the visible line. Chikungunya served as the model target. The approach is designed to avoid thermal cycling and fluorescence readers, but field performance across mosquito-borne viruses still requires validation.
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GitHub added head-branch instructions, custom setup steps, separate runners, and a default firewall to Copilot code review.
Copilot code review now reads instruction files from a pull request's head branch, including AGENTS.md, and recognizes additional review-guidance filenames. Repositories can define a dedicated setup workflow, while organizations can configure review runners separately from the cloud coding agent. Network access is firewalled by default on supported hosted runners; self-hosted runners do not currently receive that firewall.
Pediatricians trained through collaborative care became more able to manage anxiety and depression independently.
Lurie Children's evaluated its Mood, Anxiety, ADHD Collaborative Care program and found participating pediatricians were more likely to diagnose and treat anxiety and depression without continued specialist support. The capacity-building model addresses a specialist shortage, but the institutional study does not establish that every practice can reproduce the same result without comparable training and support.
Simulations suggest the telescope could find up to 100 stellar tidal-disruption events each year, including in the early universe.
A new forecast says Roman's wide, repeated infrared survey can catch stars being torn apart by otherwise faint supermassive black holes, including systems seen as far back as 11 billion years. The expected sample could help distinguish early black-hole growth routes. The count is a mission forecast before launch, not an observed catalog.
Extra SORLA reduced several processes tied to tau tangles and neurodegeneration in laboratory models.
Sanford Burnham Prebys researchers found that increasing SORLA reduced excessive tau phosphorylation and other harmful changes associated with tauopathies. The work identifies a protective pathway and a possible therapeutic direction. It does not show that raising SORLA is safe, feasible, or clinically effective in people with Alzheimer's disease.
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OPTAR filters omics candidates for novelty, disease-network relevance, and structural pockets before laboratory testing.
OPTAR excludes proteins already tied to a disease or existing drugs, scores indirect disease relevance through interaction networks, and checks AlphaFold structures for candidate pockets. In liver-cancer data it prioritized three proteins whose knockdown reduced cell viability and migration. Those cell experiments validate targets for further study, not medicines or patient benefit.
A physics-based model connected temperature to seven volatile compounds escaping automotive paint sludge.
Chamber tests at 18 to 33 degrees Celsius found substantially higher short-term VOC release at warmer temperatures, with most emissions tapering after about 15 hours. The researchers derived temperature relationships for diffusion and releasable concentration that outperformed several data-hungry alternatives under limited observations. Long-term aging and hydrolysis remain outside the model.
A randomized trial found 5 milligrams of olanzapine improved recovery and reduced nausea after same-day surgery.
Yale's investigator-led clinical trial tested a single inexpensive dose before general anesthesia. Patients reported better overall recovery and less post-operative nausea after ambulatory procedures. Olanzapine is an antipsychotic with known adverse effects, so the result supports clinician-guided perioperative use rather than self-treatment.
Two API endpoints now report daily coding-agent and code-review pull-request activity for each repository.
GitHub's usage metrics can now show pull requests created and merged by the coding agent plus review activity and suggestion types at repository level. Access remains restricted to authorized enterprise or organization roles and requires the metrics policy to be enabled. The release measures activity, not code quality or productivity on its own.
A working group turned altered jugular flow and terrestrial risk factors into an astronaut prophylaxis algorithm.
NASA's clinical panel identified left internal jugular stasis as a dominant microgravity concern while noting current ultrasound limitations. The resulting risk score recommends anticoagulation for stasis alone or weighted combinations of other thrombosis risks. It is an agency clinical-practice framework, not a population estimate of how often clots occur in space.
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