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The Structure of The Milky Way May Have Shaped Earth's Continents

(Ratnakorn Piyasirisorost/Moment/Getty Images) In the beginning, there was moosh. At the dawn of the Solar System, young ...
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The First Room-Temperature Quantum Material of Its Kind Is Spun From Atoms of Gold

The quantum material is made from glass and gold. (LSU Quantum Photonics Group) Materials in a quantum state come with exotic ...
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Inside a modern processor, transistors switch on and off billions of times a second — and they’ve shrunk to about 3 nanometres wide, roughly 15 silicon atoms across, cl…

Modern processors run on switches so small they're measured in atoms. At about 3 nanometres, a transistor gate is roughly 15 ...
Nature

Rising stars of mathematics awarded prestigious 2026 Fields Medal

Mathematicians Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman and Hong Wang have won the 2026 Fields Medal — one of the most coveted ...
China Daily

Physicist's team wins natl award for research on water

While most people take water for granted, Wang looks at it through an ultrapowerful atomic lens to understand the fundamental ...
NextBigFuture

Adding and Removing Atoms and Molecules Shown

A new paper provides clear, reproducible proof-of-concept for subtractive mechanosynthesis on silicon. It is not yet a ...
The Robot Report

Uber co-founder raises $1.7B for new robotics startup ATOMS

With ATOMS, Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber, said he hopes to create physical automation to transform industry.
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Travis Kalanick's Atoms secures $1.7B funding; Ben Horowitz joins

Travis Kalanick's robotics firm Atoms has secured a USD 1.7 billion equity investment led by a16z, with Ben Horowitz joining ...

Kalanick’s Atoms raises $1.7B in a16z-led round for industrial AI

Among the equity partners in the round are Bain Capital, Fifth Wall, Chemistry, A*, K5 Global, Abstract, SV Angel and Alpha Square Group — as well as Uber, the ride-hailing giant Kalanick co-founded ...
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Uber Founder’s Robotics Company Atoms Raises $1.7 Billion To Automate Physical Industries

Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick’s industrial AI startup Atoms raises $1.7 billion led by a16z to automate heavy physical industries.
Greek Reporter

Record Levels of Hidden Gold Found Beneath the Pacific

Scientists have discovered record concentrations of hidden gold locked inside pyrite, the mineral commonly known as fool’s ...
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Our Galaxy's Heart Is Dusted With Sugar, And It Could Help Explain How Life Began

A multi-wavelength image of the center of the Milky Way. Looks delicious. (NASA, ESA, SSC, CXC and STScI) The latest ...