Second Kuiper Belt? Planets Beyond Neptune?

Astronomer used to think that the Kuiper Belt was a few hundred times larger than the Asteroid belt. They thought it was a donut shaped structure that started at Neptune and extended out 2 billion miles. Recent observation suggests it extends out at least 5 billion miles. This is based upon finding about 2000 objects, …

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Roadmap to 10000 Qubit Fault Tolerant Quantum Computer

PASQAL, a leader in neutral atoms quantum computing, is releasing a significant technology roadmap today. Key highlights will include: Scaling Up: Roadmap targets 10,000 qubits by 2026, progression towards fault-tolerant systems. Customer Focus: Devices already in the hands of end-users (100+ qubits), driving software development. Promising Research: Recent advances demonstrate potential for quantum error correction …

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Korean SCT Lab Paper Partially Describes How to Make Potential Room Temperature Superconductor Pb-Cu-P-S-O

SCT Lab published a paper on how they make the Pb-Cu-P-S-O compound that has some pieces with potential room temperature superconductivity. The description of the process to make it is partial. How they get the powders is not described. They did not give mass ratios (cited intellectual property). The testing process for zero resistivity did …

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Argonne National Lab Breakthrough Cathode Innovation for Sodium-Ion Batteries

Argonne National labs has a new cathode material for sodium-ion batteries. Johnson’s team invented a layered oxide cathode tailored for sodium-ion batteries. This variation on the NMC cathode is a sodium nickel-manganese-iron (NMF) oxide with a layered structure for efficient insertion and extraction of sodium. The absence of cobalt in the cathode formula mitigates cost, …

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Kairos Power Makes First Non-Nuclear Molten Salt System Prototype

Kairos Power has successfully completed 1,000 hours of pumped salt operations with its non-nuclear Engineering Testing Unit (ETU) at the company’s testing and manufacturing facility in Albuquerque, N.M. This achievement arrives on the heels of operators loading 12 metric tons of a molten fluoride salt coolant known as “Flibe” into ETU, making it the largest …

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Abnormal Thin Film LK99 Result from Korea Excites Chinese Superconductor Researchers

There was a APS presentation by Ulsan Korea University researchers. It is being reported that numerous comments on the Chinese website Zhihu imply that the University of Ulsan’s data plot is so important that a certain superconductivity expert saw the decisive signal proving LK99’s superconductivity in the graph’s temperature rise curve near 200K. Nextbigfuture does …

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2 Megawatt Nuclear Reactors That Can Fit In a Truck

NANO Nuclear is a startup that has raised over $8 million to develop micro nuclear fission reactors with up to 2 megawatts of power. They will be transported by Semi Trucks. They plan to sell 1,000 microreactors on a yearly basis for a trillion-dollar industry. Nuclear currently supplies some 18% of US power needs off …

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The Cases For and Against LK99-Type Room Temperature Superconductors

This is a review of the arguments and evidence for and against LK99 type materials as room temperature superconductors. Case Against Cuprous Sulfide and Iron Contamination The claims against LK99 and LK99-variants materials as a superconductor is that cuprous sulfide has some transition temperatures that match up with some of the bulk LK99 readings. They …

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