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Home of Lance Dixon, who verified the nine-loop result
A small physics calculation just became a marker for AI capability. The six-particle scattering amplitude in planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills, a favorite testing ground for theorists, had sat at eight loops since 2023—until Anthropic's Claude pushed it to nine in late August 2026, running unsupervised for days at a cost of a few thousand dollars.
Updated Sep 28
Leading nickelate superconductor research
Scientists just cracked a problem that's plagued superconductor research for decades: how to make these wonder materials work without crushing them under diamond-anvil pressures. In February 2025, teams at SLAC and Stanford stabilized nickelate superconductors at everyday pressure using substrate compression, while University of Houston researchers locked in a superconducting state using a rapid pressure-release technique.
Updated May 19
Completed LSST Camera construction
On June 23, 2025, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first images. A 3.2-gigapixel camera, the largest ever built for astronomy, captured 10 million galaxies in a single frame. In just 10 hours of test observations, it found 2,104 asteroids nobody knew existed, including seven near-Earth objects; for the next decade, it will photograph the entire Southern Hemisphere sky every three nights.
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