Other interesting news for 2.6.26

Other interesting news for 2.6.26

This post collects links to other interesting news that we have considered but not included in our regular news this week.
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Giulio Prisco
Feb 6, 2026
2 min read

This post collects links to other interesting news that we have considered but not included in our regular news this week.

Hippocampus does more than store memories: it predicts rewards, study finds

MXene nanomaterials enter a new dimension

Breathing new life into nanotubes for a cooler planet

SNU researchers revive hard-to-synthesize materials using AI, developing an LLM-based materials redesign technology

From sensors to smart systems: the rise of AI-driven photonic noses

Record-breaking photons at telecom wavelengths — on demand

Breathing in the past: How museums can use biomolecular archaeology to bring ancient scents to life

Knowledge-driven autonomous materials research via collaborative multi-agent and robotic system

“Simply by stacking”: The remarkable memory mechanism of graphene, the new dream material!

Researchers use duality to construct and classify new quantum phases

AI system turns a song into a complete music video

Ultra-thin metasurface chip turns invisible infrared light into steerable visible beams

Scientists crack the rules of gene regulation with experimental elegance and AI

Terahertz microscope reveals the motion of superconducting electrons

New insights in metamaterials lead to better implants, robot hands, and bumpers

Did we just see a black hole explode? Physicists at UMass Amherst think so—and it could explain (almost) everything

"DIVE" into hydrogen storage materials discovery with AI agents

InstaDrive: Street view generation based on the unified instance segmentation input of vehicles and map elements

Deterministic entanglement-assisted quantum communication over 20-km fiber channel

No brain, no problem: What robots can learn from sea stars

Researchers discover how to dampen electronic noise in materials with potential for quantum technologies

Origami-inspired space structure is compact when launched, expanded in space

Simulations and experiments meet: Machine learning predicts the structures of gold nanoclusters

Achieving >97% on GSM8K: Deeply understanding the problems makes LLMs better solvers for math word problems

From “optical synapses” to a “photonic brain” --- integrated photonic neural networks toward low-power general-purpose

Making light “think” in negatives: A fully real-valued optical chip for generative model

AI agents debate more effectively when given personalities and the ability to interrupt

Bidirectional chain-of-thought for zero-shot object navigation

The brain uses eye movements to see in 3D

Surgery for quantum bits

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