Caroline Delbert, Pop Mech
A quantum computing startup called Quantum Machines has released a new programming language called QUA. The language runs on the startup's proprietary Quantum Orchestration Platform.
Jonathan Amos, BBC News
Behold the hot, energetic Universe.A German-Russian space telescope has just acquired a breakthrough map of the sky that traces the heavens in X-rays.The image records a lot of the violent action in the cosmos - instances where matter is being accelerated, heated and shredded.
Ross Pomeroy, RCScience
Over the preceding decades, hundreds of potential treatments for Alzheimer's Disease have failed to show clinical benefits in human trials, crashing and burning with a consistency that Stat News' Damian Garde called "metronomic." That's terrible news for the more than five million Americans who currently have Alzheimer's and the more than fourteen million who will be living with it by 2060.
Michael Schulson, Undark
In the span of less than four months, Covid-19 has killed around one in every 40 nursing home residents in the United States some 32,000 people as of May 31, according to federal data. More than 600 nursing facility staff members have also died from the disease.
Bard Amundsen, SciNor
In recent years, archaeologists who study Norway during the Bronze Age have discovered a great deal of new information. Some now have a completely different perspective on this period. Colleagues in Sweden and Denmark feel the same way.They see evidence of a first Viking Age.The thing is, it happened three thousand years ago. That which is today known as the Viking Age took place only a thousand years ago.
Amanda Heidt, The Scientist
A pair of studies published this week is shedding light on the duration of immunity following COVID-19, showing patients lose their IgG antibodiesthe virus-specific, slower-forming antibodies associated with long-term immunitywithin weeks or months after recovery.
Evan Gough, Universe Today
Is it time to head back to Neptune and its moon Triton? It might be. After all, we have some unfinished business there.It's been 30 years since NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past the gas giant and its largest moon, and that flyby posed more questions than it answered. Maybe we'll get some answers in 2038, when the positions of Jupiter, Neptune, and Triton will be just right for a mission.
Sebenius & Sebenius, Stat
More than 120,000 Americans have now perished from Covid-19, surpassing the total number of U.S. dead during World War I. Had American leaders taken the decisive, early measures that several other nations took when they had exactly the same information the U.S. did, at exactly the same time in their experience of the novel coronavirus, how many of these Covid-19 deaths could have been prevented?
D. Jeans, Forbes
In the race to the future of quantum computing, Honeywell has just secured a fresh lead. The North Carolina-based conglomerate announced Thursday that it has produced the world's fastest quantum computer, at least twice as powerful as the existing computers operated by IBM and Google.
Castelvecchi & Gibney, Nature
CERN has taken a major step towards building a 100-kilometre circular super-collider to push the frontier of high-energy physics.The decision was unanimously endorsed by the CERN Council on 19 June, following the plan's approval by an independent panel in March. Europe's preeminent particle-physics organization will need global help to fund the project, which is expected to cost at least 21 billion and would be a follow-up to the lab's famed Large Hadron Collider.
Natalie Parletta, Cosmos
When it comes to superpowers, humans have dreamed up everything from super strength and X-ray vision to body morphing, shape shifting, and spinning giant spiderwebs.Planning ability might not sound quite as sexy, but according to Malcolm MacIver, from Northwestern University, US, it's our species' true superpower.
