US technology giant IBM on December 4 announced a series of updates on its quantum computing roadmap; expanding it to a 10-year plan and launching 'IBM Quantum Heron', a new series of utility-scale quantum processors with an architecture to deliver IBM's highest performance metrics and lowest error rates of any IBM Quantum processor to date.

През 2012 г. Лорета Бойсинг получи пратка по пощата с имуносупресори на нейния тогава малък син, които той приема на всеки 12 часа, за да попречи на тялото му да отхвърли трансплантирания му черен дроб. Лекарството, което пристигна в 102-градусов ден, беше изпратено в найлонов плик.

Neurons produce rhythmic patterns of electrical activity in the brain. One of the unsettled questions in the field of neuroscience is what primarily drives these rhythmic signals, called oscillations. University of Arizona researchers have found that simply remembering events can trigger them, even more so than when people are experiencing the actual event.