After the US midterms, the science community’s key issues are the Dec. 12 funding deadline, the direction of the House Science Committee and probes into NSF and DOE grant terminations. We summarize them from AIP reporting.
All five nucleobases that serve as the letters of DNA and RNA have been found in samples from the asteroid Ryugu brought back by JAXA’s Hayabusa2 mission, according to a study in Nature Astronomy.
Universal Quantum has unveiled iQPU, a trapped-ion processor that combines control electronics, a computing area and chip-to-chip links on a single chip. It was made on a 200 mm commercial line.