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1. Google’s $5 Million Competition Invites Global Innovators to Unlock Quantum Computing’s Potential

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2. French defense ministry picks startups to develop quantum computers

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3. Scientists finally detected oxygen-28. Its instability surprised them

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4. Talking fish!

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5. Here’s how tardigrades go into suspended animation

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6. The smallest known molecular knot is made of just 54 atoms

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7. Ion Beams Unleashed: The Nanotechnology Game Changer

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8. Physicists develop a modular robot with liquid and solid properties

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9. The dark side of AI: Large-scale scam campaigns made possible by generative AI

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10. Digging Space: Asteroid mining unlikely to overwhelm metal markets

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11. There's an asteroid out there worth $100,000 quadrillion. Why haven't we mined it?

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12. Texas breaks daily solar generation record with peak of 16.7GW

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13. How the Iowa City Airport plans to 'go green' and save $20K a year via solar power

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14. Earth Receives First-Ever Power Beam From Orbiting Satellite

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15. Inexpensive, carbon-neutral biofuels are finally possible

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16. Researchers Create Light-Powered Yeast, Providing Insights Into Evolution, Biofuels, Cellular Aging

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17. IonQ opens first US quantum factory amid VC cash crunch

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18. Government should outlaw theft of DNA, commission says

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19. JET Fusion Reactor Sets World Record for Generating Energy

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20. Nuclear fusion reaction releases almost twice the energy put in

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21. Influential US particle-physics panel calls for muon collider development

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22. More than 500 people arrested in operation against human trafficking in California

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23. Nanobots for bladder cancer treatment, promising high efficacy and targeted delivery

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24. Neuralink fits its first human patient with a brain interface

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25. Scientists Identify New Key Mediator in Heavy Alcohol Drinking

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