A device smaller than a grain of dust is emerging as a surprisingly powerful candidate to reshape how quantum computers are built and scaled. Instead of relying on room-filling optics and fragile lab ...

The research team’s chip was examined under a microscope, and a germanium-ion-implanted silicon waveguide photodiode was displayed on the screen on the right. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

Tencent reported second-quarter 2025 revenue of CNY184.5 billion (approx. US$26 billion), a 15% increase from a year earlier, with net profit rising 18% to CNY69.2 billion. On the earnings call, ...

Fig. 1: The Protochips Fusion heating stage and chip used in the Nion electrical module, which enabled the scientists to conduct controlled high-temperature studies in the vacuum of the microscope.

Within a modest engineering laboratory at Duke University, a new type of researcher is quietly at work next to an optical microscope. This new researcher has no need for coffee, does not become tired, ...