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• [New] Pasqal's hardware technology roadmap is designed to move rapidly toward scalable, digital fault-tolerant quantum computing - reaching 1,000 physical qubits until the end of the year and moving towards 10,000 qubits by 2028. PASQAL
• [New] Agentic and Physical AI - robotics, autonomous vehicles, industrial digital twins - will make bursty, inference-heavy workloads the norm by the end of the decade. Barnaby Robson
• While existing robotic mechanisms can perform physical tasks in industrial settings, for example, with physical AI, Nvidia says the technology will enable humanoid robots to use computer vision more effectively, perform more autonomously and be capable of being trained more easily. TechTarget
• Polycrystalline diamond films will be prepared by MW plasma-enhanced CVD method in close cooperation with the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. Institute of Electrical Engineering SAS
• Researchers at Swansea University have discovered a way to use mirrors to dramatically reduce the quantum noise that disturbs tiny particles - a breakthrough that might seem magical but is rooted in quantum physics. ScienceDaily
• Academic and Research Contributions: Universities in South Africa, Egypt, and Kenya are beginning to introduce quantum physics and computing research, which could play a role in future telecom innovations. Telecom Review Africa
• Dragon carries an enhanced air quality monitoring system that could help protect crew members on exploration missions to the Moon and Mars, and two atomic clocks to examine fundamental physics concepts, such as relativity, and test global synchronization of precision timepieces. SciTechDaily
• Dragon carries an enhanced air quality monitoring system that could protect crew members on exploration missions to the Moon and Mars, and two atomic clocks to examine fundamental physics concepts, such as relativity, and test worldwide synchronization of precision timepieces. NASA
• Oxford Ionics' global team includes over 80 employees across physics, quantum architecture, engineering, software and business and expects to triple headcount over the next 18 months as the business scales internationally. Oxford Ionics
• Fusion Power for Fast Space Travel Scientists at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are developing a groundbreaking propulsion system called the Direct Fusion Drive that could drastically cut down travel time to distant planets. Physics-Astronomy Blog
• Quantum technology makes use of the spooky effects of quantum physics to vastly speed up information processing, which could lead to the most powerful computer on Earth. Daily Mail
• Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have developed a computer program incorporating machine learning that could help identify blobs of plasma in outer space known as plasmoids. ScienceDaily
• Up to 38% of medical professionals will suffer from physical violence at some point in their careers and some estimates predict up to 95% of Australian healthcare professionals have experienced the effects of physical and verbal violence. Australian Medical Association
• Nuclear physics theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated that complex calculations run on supercomputers can accurately predict the distribution of electric charges in mesons, particles made of a quark and an antiquark. ScienceDaily
• The new assistant professors of physics will augment a wide range of quantum research already underway in the departments of physics, chemistry and engineering, much of it in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Berkeley News
• The University of California, Los Angeles, went further by buying an abandoned shopping mall and will allocate half of the physical space to quantum research and development. Default
• Scientists led by Chang Liu of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have unveiled a promising approach to mitigating damaging runaway electrons created by disruptions in tokamak fusion devices. SciTechDaily
• Australian quantum computing startup Diraq Pty Ltd. said today it has closed on a $15 million capital raise that will be used to advance its research into a novel concept for building the physical qubits that power quantum computers. SiliconANGLE
• OQC's development of the quantum computer has the potential to change the information processing landscape by merging the bounds of engineering and physics. Yahoo Finance
• The 36 billion yuan (US$ 5 billion) Circular Electron Positron Collider, also known as a Higgs factory, will take about 10 years to build and become the next global center of particle physics. South China Morning Post
• Sampling from a D-Wave quantum machine has a computational complexity that depends on the number of the involved physical qubits and the number of samples extracted, making it non-trivial to forecast the advantage the quantum computer would offer in the future. Nature

Last updated: 04 July 2025