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This post collects links to other interesting news that we have considered but not included in our regular news this week.

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed an integrated nanophotonic platform that can store multiple photons simultaneously for over one microsecond. The chip-based quantum memory uses erbium-doped thin-film lithium niobate waveguides arranged in an atomic frequency comb pattern to capture and hold photons.

UMass Amherst researchers have developed an ultrathin, flexible mesh that integrates electronics with human cells to harvest electrical energy directly from cellular activity. The biohybrid device generates ten times more power density than conventional battery systems and could eliminate the need for bulky batteries in wearable and implantable electronics.

Edge City India 2026 brings together frontier AI, decentralized technologies, and collaborative experimentation, exploring how emerging systems might shape the next generation of technological innovation.

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have observed pair density waves in uranium ditelluride, confirming a 20-year-old prediction that Cooper pairs can exist above the superconducting critical temperature. This discovery provides the first direct evidence of a peculiar quantum state where electron pairs form patterns even when the main superconducting phase has vanished.

EPFL engineers built a sliding fiber motor that turns voltage into linear motion without gears, for soft robots and wearable devices.

Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai share the prize for reactions that turn a tiny imbalance into a single molecular handedness.

In a fictional letter from beyond the Singularity, a superintelligent AI warns that humanity’s future may depend less on controlling new minds than on teaching them compassion.

Weizmann Institute researchers have developed Brain-IT, an AI model that can reconstruct images people are viewing from their brain activity using only about one hour of training data.

OpenAI announces a broad release of new mathematical results generated by an internal frontier model, publishing findings in a GitHub repository with formal Lean proof verification.