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People tend to think of quantum materials — whose properties arise from quantum mechanical effects — as exotic curiosities. But some quantum materials have become a ubiquitous part of our computer hard drives, TV screens, and medical devices. Still, the vast majority of quantum materials never accomplish much outside of the lab. What makes certain quantum materials commercial successes and …

Cohort selection The TwinsUK study contains around 16,000 participants. From a preselection of 4,800 donors, we invited 1,796 to participate based on several criteria, receiving buccal swabs from 1,236 donors (Extended Data Fig. 2a). The use of these samples was approved initially by the North West Research Ethics Committee (REC 19/NW/0187 and REC 24/NW/0106), and informed consent was provided by …

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where Rick Neuheisel’s proud dad exultation over the play-calling debut of son Jerry was one of the weekend’s best moments. First Quarter: When Your Top Five Team Turns Into a Dumpster Fire. Second Quarter: Ultimate Carousel Chaos Theory. Assessing the work done to date by coaches in new places. …

DoorDash Unveils Delivery Robot, Smart Scale in Hardware Debut  Bloomberg.com Dash Forward 2025: Delivering The Future of Local Commerce  DoorDash DoorDash unleashes fleet of delivery bots, called Dots, onto streets of Phoenix  CBS News DoorDash’s Dot delivery bots might be coming to a bike lane near you  The Washington Post DoorDash’s New Delivery Robot Rolls Out Into the Big, Cruel World  WIRED Source link

Swift to add blockchain-based ledger to its infrastructure stack in groundbreaking move to accelerate and scale benefits of digital finance across more than 200 countries and territories worldwide  Homepage | Swift Swift To Build a Blockchain-Based Ledger For Financial Firms  Bloomberg.com Swift experiments with onchain migration using Ethereum Layer 2 Linea: report  theblock.co Ripple’s XRP Poised to Revolutionize Global Payments Amidst Regulatory Clarity …

Asia stocks scale new highs, dollar weakens as investors eye Fed cut  Reuters Asian Stocks Gain at Open After Wall Street Rally: Markets Wrap  Bloomberg.com Asia stocks scale new highs, dollar tentative as investors eye Fed cut  Reuters Asian shares trade mixed after Wall Street sets new records  The Hill Global Stock Markets Rise Ahead of Expected Fed Rate Cut  The Wall Street Journal Source …

Assembly and quality control of DNA methylation data We assembled and processed with a harmonized pipeline14 (v4.1; see Code availability section) 2,430 bulk sample Illumina methylation array data of normal and neoplastic lymphoid cells from previous publications14,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30. As healthy control samples, this dataset contained sorted CD19+ B cells (n = 40), CD3+ T cells (n = 35), peripheral blood mononuclear cells (n = 6) and whole-blood …

Press enter or click to view image in full size (Credit: PUNCHAN/ISTOCKPHOTO) A new paper (accessible here) that I co-authored with the brilliant graduate student at Vanderbilt University, Oem Trivedi, provides a framework for quantifying the Loeb Scale in the classification of interstellar objects as natural or technological. The recent astronomical discovery of a third interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, following 1I/‘Oumuamua …

Shares scale fresh peaks in Asia, oil eyes Ukraine talks  Reuters Stocks and oil rise before Zelenskyy-Trump meeting in Washington, UK house prices fall in August – business live  The Guardian Asia Set for Cautious Open Ahead of Ukraine Talks: Markets Wrap  Bloomberg.com Asia-Pacific markets mostly rise as investors await U.S.-Ukraine talks  CNBC Asian shares mostly gain as eyes turn to meetings at the …

Shares scale fresh tops in Asia, oil slips on truce talks  Reuters Asia Set for Cautious Open Ahead of Ukraine Talks: Markets Wrap  Bloomberg.com Asia-Pacific markets mostly rise as investors await details of U.S.-Ukraine talks  CNBC Asia stocks encouraged by US-Russia talks; Japan’s Nikkei hits record high  Investing.com Asian shares mostly gain as eyes turn to meetings at the White House and Jackson Hole  Newsday …