Science•Scientists Built a Material That Remembers Where to Send Heat, Even After the Power Is OffA programmable device can control the direction of thermal radiation and preserve its selected state without continuous power, opening a possible route to smarter cooling, infrared sensors and photonic memory.
Science•A ‘Quantum Bath’ Keeps Distant Qubits Entangled Without Active ControlISTA physicists experimentally realized a two-decade-old proposal: a shared stream of correlated microwave photons can autonomously generate and stabilize entanglement between separated superconducting qubits. The proof of concept transfers only about 10% of the available entanglement, so scaling remains unproven.
Science•AI Reads a Herculaneum Scroll Sealed for Nearly 2,000 YearsResearchers have virtually unwrapped and read an entire carbonized Herculaneum scroll without physically opening it. The combination of high-resolution X-ray imaging, geometry and machine learning could recover hundreds of texts long considered permanently lost.
