Analysis: Science & Technology — 04 November 2026 ESA Hera spacecraft resolves Didymos and Dimorphos as separate asteroids Europe’s Hera probe has imaged Didymos and Dimorphos as two distinct objects for the first time. On 18 October its Asteroid Framing Camera recorded the pair from about 1,280 kilometers; they lie some 197 million kilometers from … Read more
Analysis: Science & Technology — 03 November 2026 LHC finds quark-gluon plasma in oxygen and neon collisions All four major Large Hadron Collider experiments—ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb—have now reported signs that quark-gluon plasma can form when oxygen and neon nuclei collide. The results, released a year after the LHC’s first oxygen runs, include jet … Read more
Analysis: Science & Technology — 02 November 2026 IBM links two 120-qubit processors with four superconducting cables IBM Research has joined two 120-qubit Nighthawk R1 superconducting processors with four separate quantum links, each an 80-centimeter aluminum cable installed after both chips were already mounted in a cryostat. Across the links, quantum states transferred with an … Read more
Analysis: Science & Technology — 31 October 2026 3D map finds 41 percent of nearby interstellar gas in an unstable state A team at the Technion combined a 4,000-light-year dust-density map with unpublished ultraviolet-heating data and found that 27 percent of the local interstellar medium is cold, 32 percent is warm, and 41 percent sits … Read more
Analysis: Science & Technology — 30 October 2026 UC Davis mathematicians find Friedmann spacetimes unstable, challenging dark energy A UC Davis team reports in Proceedings of the Royal Society A that Friedmann spacetimes, the backbone of the Lambda-CDM expansion model, are unstable to radial perturbations at both small and large scales. Blake Temple and colleagues … Read more
Analysis: Science & Technology — 29 October 2026 Rubin Observatory finds dwarf planet candidate 2026 ED138 beyond Pluto Matthew Holman of the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics spotted 2026 ED138 in early 2026 data from the Simonyi Survey Telescope at the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. Mario Jurić of the University of … Read more
Analysis: Science & Technology — 28 October 2026 Rubin Observatory finds dwarf planet candidate 2026 ED138 beyond Pluto Astronomers announced on 27 October 2026 that the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has produced its first dwarf-planet candidate, provisionally designated 2026 ED138. Matthew Holman of the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics found the trans-Neptunian object … Read more
Analysis: Science & Technology — 27 October 2026 Condorcet voting paradox mapped onto a Klein bottle Three mathematicians have shown that Condorcet’s 1785 voting cycle has a geometric form: a Klein bottle, a one-sided surface with no distinct inside or outside. Ori Livson, Mikhail Prokopenko and Siddharth Pritam start from Yuliy Baryshnikov’s 1993 triangle model … Read more
Analysis: Science & Technology — 26 October 2026 RIKEN runs five silicon spin qubits at once with ~99.9% fidelity Researchers at RIKEN’s Center for Emergent Matter Science report in Nature Physics that five silicon spin qubits on one shared microwave line can be driven together while single-qubit gate fidelity stays near 99.9 percent. Tested one … Read more
Analysis: Science & Technology — 24 October 2026 Cryo-EM captures Plasmodium’s moving junction as it invades red blood cells Chi-Min Ho’s lab at Columbia University has imaged Plasmodium’s moving junction at the instant it enters a red blood cell. Using cryo-electron microscopy, the team resolved a ring of protein anchors that briefly open a portal, … Read more