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As a general rule, the individual components of quantum machines become increasingly unruly as they grow larger, causing error rates to spike.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

A cheap hypersonic missile on aircraft carriers could help U.S. forces pop China’s defensive bubble—and thus help deter Beijing from causing a crisis in the first place.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

It works by engineering a civil war within the immune system – to get one part to destroy the part causing disease.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Over time, tidal forces synchronize the planet's rotation with its orbit, causing one rotation to take the same amount of time as one trip around its star.

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

I pulled up the tab on a can of diabetic wet food and yanked the metal top off with the familiar whoosh, causing Fig to “mrow” repeatedly.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas