San Francisco startup Petra says its new contactless thermal drilling robot can make steady progress through the hardest rock on Earth - stuff that would normally destroy drilling equipment - so quickly and cheaply that it could make a lot of underground infrastructure projects economically...

December 27, 2019 , RIKEN A device that can separate and recombine pairs of electrons may offer a way to study an unusual form of superconductivity, according to RIKEN physicists. This superconducting state would involve exotic particles called Majorana fermions that could prove useful in developing quantum computers.