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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope discovered a third giant planet lurking in the Beta Pictoris system, detected not by direct imaging but by reading the chemical fingerprint of its atmosphere โ a brand-new detection method. The planet holds the widest orbit of any known world in the system and was hiding in a place astronomers had already studied extensively. How many more planets in systems we think we understand might still be hiding out there?
Scientists extended the lifetime of magnons โ tiny magnetic waves in solid materials โ nearly 100-fold to 18 microseconds by using ultra-pure yttrium iron garnet at low temperatures. That makes them competitive with superconducting qubits in today's leading quantum processors, and since magnonic circuits can shrink to nanometer scale, a quantum computer the size of a penny might actually be possible. Could miniature quantum computers change how we think about computing power?