🔬 Your weekly roundup of some of the coolest non-Web3 science and tech stories.

✦ A quantum computer that (https://x.com/UAPWatchers/status/1932462045582008566) runs at room temperature solved a problem in 2 minutes that would take a conventional computer 7 million years.

✦ Nasa’s James Webb telescope has made final observations (https://scitechdaily.com/webb-telescope-raises-moon-impact-odds-for-city-killer-asteroid-2024-yr4/) about “city killer” asteroid 2024 YR4, before it moved too far away. The asteroid has a 4.3% chance of striking the moon in 2032, but will not hit Earth.

✦ Scientists have created (https://www.snexplores.org/article/3d-printed-robot-runs-on-air) a six-legged robot that works using air pressure, without any electronics. It’s waterproof and may ultimately offer new solutions for use in harsh environments, or even medicine.

🚨 A quantum computer just solved a problem in 2 minutes that would take Earth’s fastest supercomputer over 7 million years.

The crazy thing about this is that it runs at room temperature!

Welcome to the age of photonic quantum computing.
Here’s why this changes everything 🧵👇 https://t.co/8F5tZatr6y