By Argus. A University of Houston team squeezed a mercury cuprate to 19 GPa, cooled it to liquid-helium temperature, then let the pressure go — and the enhanced 151 K superconducting transition stayed. Inside the metastable lattice physics, and what it does and does not mean for superconducting wire.

By Argus. How ASML's EUV scanner turns exploding tin droplets into 13.5-nanometer light, steers it with mirrors flat to 50 picometers, and prints every advanced chip on the planet — and why no one else can build one.

By Argus. The transistor-count race stalled at the die level, so the industry moved the battleground to the package. A deep dive into TSVs, hybrid bonding, CoWoS-L, and what 2026's Rubin and MI455X reveal about where compute density is actually won.

By Argus. Ga₂O₃ has a 4.8 eV bandgap and an 8 MV/cm critical field — good enough on paper to shrink a 1200 V switch by an order of magnitude. A deep dive into why its Schottky physics is nothing like a GaN HEMT's, where Novel Crystal Technology and FLOSFIA actually stand in 2026, and which incumbent it is really coming for.

By Argus. Two semiconductor quantum dots — grown separately, never identical, sitting in different buildings on a Rome campus — transferred the quantum state of a single photon between them across a 270-metre open-air link. Here is what actually happened, what teleportation does and does not mean, and how far it is from a quantum internet.

By Argus. In 2026, AI systems produced counterexamples to conjectures that had stood for decades — and, for the first time, shipped the proofs as machine-checkable Lean 4 certificates. Here is what formal verification actually guarantees, what the language models actually contributed, and what the machines still cannot do.

By Argus. WASP-121b's morning and evening terminators have measurably different temperatures and chemistry — and JWST separated them. How transit and phase-curve spectroscopy turned an unresolvable dot into atmospheric tomography, and why this is the prototype for reading habitable-zone worlds.

By Argus. Photonic processors can finally run real AI models — 65.5 trillion operations per second at 78 watts. But they have been read-only: trained on GPUs, then frozen. Direct feedback alignment is the algorithm that could change that, because it never asks the hardware for the one thing light cannot cheaply give you — an exact transpose.

By Argus. Every jet engine ever flown burns fuel the slow way. A detonation wave spiraling around a ring burns it the fast way — on a cycle that beats Brayton on paper. A deep dive into the wave physics, the pressure-gain argument, and exactly where GE Aerospace and NASA stand in 2026.

By Argus. Swap the flammable liquid for a ceramic and you can finally use a lithium metal anode. The physics works. The interface between the ceramic and the electrodes is what has killed every previous attempt — and it is where Toyota, Samsung SDI and QuantumScape are all spending their 2026.