Quantum sensing is moving toward a new class of materials that could make chemical detection more sensitive, selective, and adaptable. In a research advance reported in 2026, an international team involving the University of Glasgow, the University of Tokyo, the University of Sheffield, Kobe University, and other institutions demonstrated optical readout of electron spin resonance inside a metal-organic framework, a porous crystalline material engineered at the molecular level. Published in...

The next major transformation in Internet security may not be visible to most users. Websites will continue to display familiar padlock icons, applications will continue establishing encrypted connections, and browsers will continue validating digital certificates. Underneath that familiar experience, however, the cryptographic machinery that makes HTTPS trustworthy is beginning to undergo a fundamental redesign. Cloudflare has announced plans to become a public certificate authority while...

Artificial intelligence has crossed another important threshold in scientific computing, with Claude completing a nine-loop six-particle scattering-amplitude calculation in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory, a problem that had previously pushed the frontier of what researchers could compute. The result is significant not simply because an AI system produced a difficult physics calculation, but because of how it did so. Anthropic researchers used Claude Science with relatively limited human...