NEW: Ranga Dias, a physics professor who claimed he had discovered a room-temperature superconductor, is out at the University of Rochester wsj.com/science/univer…

Dias is out at Rochester, finally. My reporting here: nature.com/articles/d4158…

There's still caveats—only 1 logical qubit, no actual computation, absolute error rate per cycle is 7x per syndrome—but Google's error correction result really is very impressive, and it suggests a real path to fault tolerance. scientificamerican.com/article/google…

Science advising during the second Trump term is off to a fast start with filled roles, but the policy remains up in the air. Co-reported with Jeff Tollefson; our story: nature.com/articles/d4158…

Science journalists are why most people are aware of Fermilab's woes, DUNE's budgetary issues, and the 'crisis' in physics around the lack of BSM. We also report on the government-mandated elimination of diversity initiatives.

Looks like reporting on neat research presented at the annual ACS meeting. Didn't occur to me that you could put beer in a mass spec!