We summarize the week's science breakthroughs every Thursday.
A quantum processor solved a problem in 20 minutes that would take a supercomputer millions of years. A supercomputer then did a part of it in about 2 hours.
Chemists identify a single molecule that naturally tiles in nonrepeating patterns, which could help build materials with novel electronic properties.
The “Helmholtz resonator” concept explains the frequencies of sound produced by clapping the hands together in different configurations.
Biohybrid robots made with plant and fungal tissue are more sensitive to their surroundings.
Transforming the brain tissue to glass would have required an extremely hot and fast-moving ash cloud, lab experiments suggest.
The charge transferred when identical objects touch depends on their history, scientists find.
High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.
A deep-sea detector glimpsed a particle with 220 million billion electron volts of energy — around 20 times as energetic as any neutrino seen before.
A mantis shrimp's punch creates high-energy waves. Its exoskeleton is designed to absorb that energy, preventing cracking and tissue damage.
