This randomized trial assesses the effect of oral nicotinamide riboside treatment for 52 weeks vs placebo on clinical outcomes among patients with early Parkinson disease.
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Could a Clean Room Tour Spark Your Next Career Move?
2030, semiconductor facilities will create demand for 189,000 new full-time jobs. On our current trajectory, there will not be enough trained workers to fill them. Community colleges are stepping in to fill the gap.
The semiconductor worker shortfall is the kind of challenge that community colleges were built for, Taylor-Mendoza says. Community colleges have a long history of helping train people quickly and affordably for critical jobs such as nursing, court reporting, or making computer chips. Community colleges in regional semiconductor hubs are now offering apprenticeships, certificates, and other training to enable people to update their skills or pivot to new career paths in the industry. They funnel some graduates into engineering programs at nearby universities to get four-year degrees and recruit and train high school students.
In response to the 2022 U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, companies have announced 140 new projects and investments of more than US $640 billion in the country, according to a September report by the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), for instance, plans to invest $165 billion in the US. Its chip fabrication plant in Arizona began production in 2024, and the company plans to open 3 more fabs and two packaging facilities. The Arizona fab employs about 3,500 people, and when another two open, the company will need about 6,000 employees in the region, including thousands of technicians.
“‘Build it and they will come’ doesn’t work” with semiconductor fabs, says Palmer of Maricopa Community Colleges (MCC), which collaborates with TSMC, Intel, and other companies on its semiconductor curricula. MCC recruits high school students and performs marketing in the region, educating people about jobs in the semiconductor industry and the training they need to get a foot in the door. Then they provide that training, often at no cost to students.
NASA funds ion-powered flying drones to explore Saturn’s largest moon
NASA is funding an ambitious new concept that could send swarms of tiny, silent, spherical “aerobots” floating through the eerie underground caves of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.
The project is called SPARK or Solid-state Propulsion for Autonomous Reconnaissance of Karst. Led by Daniel Drew, an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, SPARK uses electrohydrodynamic (EHD) propulsion, commonly known as atmospheric ion thrusters.
As EHD thrusters are solid-state and silent, the tech offers omnidirectional maneuverability without generating heavy downwash that could disturb delicate surface layers.
Brain activity patterns may predict Alzheimer’s years before memory slips
By Nina Bai
Stanford Medicine scientists and collaborators studied “super agers” and Alzheimer’s patients to decode brain activity patterns that predict vulnerability or resilience to cognitive decline.
Quantum Information Systems for Networking and Sensing
ICYMI: 🚀 HISTORIC FIRST FOR U.S. QUANTUM NETWORKING 🇺🇸⚛️
NASA just achieved a major milestone in high-security aerospace communication: sending a quantum signal from a flying aircraft directly to a ground station for the very first time in U.S. history.
During flight tests over Ohio, researchers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center locked onto single-photon quantum signals transmitted from a moving NASA Pilatus PC-12 aircraft to a optical receiver on the ground.
Why is this a big deal?
⚡ Uncrackable Physics: Traditional RF communications are vulnerable to eavesdropping and jamming. In a quantum network, information is encoded on individual particles of light (photons). Thanks to the laws of quantum mechanics, any attempt to intercept or observe the signal fundamentally alters its state—making covert tapping mathematically impossible.
📡 Breaking Out of the Fiber Trap: Fiber optic cables can only stretch so far before signals degrade. To build an unhackable, global quantum internet, we have to go wireless through open air—linking aircraft, high-altitude drones, and deep-space satellites directly to ground nodes.
A proof of the Aaronson‑Ambainis conjecture
A proof of Aaronson‑Ambainis conjecture.
* Physical Superintelligence (PSI) announced that its automated research system used an unreleased, non-public Anthropic model to prove the conjecture—a major open problem in quantum complexity theory and computing speedups that had remained unsolved since 2008.
* According to PSI, the AI system successfully generated a complete proof by its third day of operation, and the final proof was formally checked and verified using the Lean interactive theorem prover.
* The result sheds light on the exact conditions under which quantum computers hold an exponential advantage over classical computers, while also highlighting the performance gap between advanced internal AI research models and those currently available to the public.
Notes:
The (AA) conjecture, posed by Scott Aaronson and Andris Ambainis in 2008, addresses a fundamental question in theoretical computer science: When can a quantum computer run exponentially faster than a classical computer, and when is that exponential speedup impossible?
To understand the conjecture without getting lost in mathematical physics, it helps to look at how computer scientists evaluate quantum speedups through the Query Model (or “black-box” model).
Inspired by honeycombs, a low-cost cooling structure lasts over 100 million cycles
As global demand for cooling continues to grow, the urgent need for sustainable refrigeration technologies is becoming increasingly evident. Conventional vapor-compression systems remain energy-intensive, while the refrigerants can contribute to the greenhouse effect. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) research team has manufactured a low-cost, ultradurable elastocaloric refrigerant structure, inspired by the stacked porous architecture of honeycombs, that operated for more than 100 million cooling cycles with an estimated service life of more than 10 years.
This manufacturing approach substantially increases production efficiency and reduces costs, paving the way for the practical deployment of elastocaloric cooling. The findings have recently been published in the journal Science under the title “Stacked porous NiTi structure with low cost and ultrahigh fatigue life for elastocaloric cooling.”
Reversible zinc oxidation as a route to on-demand hydrogen delivery
Reversible zinc oxidation, enhanced by lactate coordination, enables a self-sustained, circuit-free pathway for high-density hydrogen storage and delivery. By overcoming solubility limits under ambient conditions, this system delivers higher volumetric capacity and safety than existing carriers, providing a robust alternative to high-pressure infrastructure for decentralized, on-demand green hydrogen delivery.
‘Zeptoverse’: CERN scientists uncover evidence of extraordinarily rare particle decay
Scientists at CERN have found evidence of an extraordinarily rare particle decay, offering a glimpse into a largely unexplored world known as the ‘zeptoverse’
The discovery was made using the Large Hadron Collider, which smashes protons together to produce particles that scientists can study.
Researchers focused on beauty particles, short-lived particles created in these collisions. They found evidence of an extremely rare process in which one of these particles transforms into other particles, something predicted to happen just once in every 10 billion cases.
Manganese Single-Atom-Engineered TiO2 Enables High-Performance Pt Catalysts for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
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