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MIT researchers present Wave-Former and RISE, two systems that combine millimeter-wave radar with generative AI to reconstruct hidden objects and entire indoor scenes through obstructions, achieving up to twice the precision of prior methods.

The MIT spinout plans to demonstrate a 1 MWh thermal battery in Bedford, Massachusetts this year, using graphite bricks heated to 2,400 degrees Celsius and liquid tin to deliver grid-scale storage at a claimed $25 per kilowatt-hour, a fraction of lithium-ion costs.

MIT physicists built the first terahertz near-field microscope and used it to directly image quantum oscillations of superconducting electrons in BSCCO, a result published in Nature.

The CMS Collaboration at CERN has detected wakes left by quarks speeding through quark-gluon plasma, providing the first direct evidence that the matter filling the universe in its first microseconds behaved as a nearly perfect liquid rather than a gas of free particles.

A DOE-backed proof-of-concept integrates cryogenic control chips directly into ion traps, potentially removing a key bottleneck blocking large-scale quantum computers.