Photonic 'ski jumps' efficiently beam light into free space

Photonic chips use light to process data instead of electricity, enabling faster communication speeds and greater bandwidth.

Ultrafast computing: Light-driven logic tops 10 terahertz in WS₂

The future for our computers will literally be at the speed of light. Extremely short light pulses can perform ultrafast logical operations: these are the findings of a study recently published in the ...
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

‘ATLAS’ System Lifts Johns Hopkins APL Leadership in Automated Experimentation

An interdisciplinary APL team created ATLAS, an artificial intelligence co-investigator that automates testing, learning, and synthesis for microcapsules, which has decreased human labor required per ...
insideHPC

HPC News Bytes 20260216: Moonshot for ‘Scientific Computing in an AI World,’ NSF’s $100M for Quantum

A good mid-winter morning to you on this US Presidents Day! Today, we’re discussing the big, red-hot issue of traditional HPC’s place in a technology world dominated by AI – even as some of us will ...
GCN

U.S. national laboratory introduces “Teton” supercomputer to advance large-scale scientific computing

Like many major industrial complexes in history, we have been able to progressively cross a range that was previously considered impossible just a couple of years ago. Currently, a computer named ...
FierceBiotech

Thermo Fisher Scientific teams up with Nvidia, TetraScience for next-gen AI workflow projects

Thermo Fisher Scientific is starting 2026's J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference with a bang, announcing two new deals with an artificial intelligence bent. First up is its deal with tech supergiant ...
TechSpot

Normal Computing tapes out the world's first thermodynamic chip for AI and scientific computing

What just happened? Normal Computing, a young company founded by alumni of Google Brain, Google X, and Palantir, has introduced what it calls a new era in computing. The startup announced the ...
Wall Street Journal

Here’s How Quantum Computing Could Change the World

AI is the technology trend of the moment—but what’s 10 years down the road? Some experts say quantum computing will be the next game changer. WSJ visited IBM’s quantum computing lab to learn why. With ...
CNBC

Quantum computing is having a moment. But the technology remains futuristic

Quantum computing has the attention of the most powerful institutions in the world, including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM and the U.S. government. Startups in the space attracted about $2 billion ...
The Conversation

Challenges to high‑performance computing threaten US innovation

Jack Dongarra receives funding from the NSF and the DOE. This technology has helped make huge discoveries in science and engineering over the past 40 years. But now, high-performance computing is at a ...
Business Insider

This startup says computing limits shouldn't slow down science. See the pitch deck it used to raise $4 million.

Camber wants to make scientific computing faster and more accessible with its cloud-based platform. The startup raised $4 million to help researchers process large datasets using powerful GPUs. Take a ...