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Appears in 7 stories · Last updated Nov 10, 2026
Reviewing the proof; proved a special case in August 2026
For 18 years, a conjecture by Scott Aaronson and Andris Ambainis has limited what quantum computers could do with random inputs. On November 6, Physical Superintelligence said an internal AI system had proved it, and the Lean proof assistant accepted every step.
Updated Yesterday
Led the tracking microscopy
A single-celled alga can move hundreds of micrometers through the body of a marine worm, even while squeezed inside host-cell tubes about 200 nanometers wide. The alga, Amphidinium, still has its flagella. But when researchers tracked it inside live Waminoa worms, they found the host's actin machinery was doing the moving.
Updated Nov 2
As of October 2026: Deisseroth's home institution
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to three scientists who built a way to switch individual nerve cells on and off with light. Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel share the 12 million Swedish kronor prize for optogenetics.
Updated Oct 8
As of September 2026: Hosts the lab that led the study
Stanford scientists created mice that grow lab-grown human neurons where their own brain cells were — the deepest integration yet of human tissue into an animal brain. The team depleted roughly 14 million native mouse cortical neurons and gave 4 million human ones room to expand.
Updated Sep 16
As of September 2026: Co-developer of BeyondMimic
Humanoid robot videos usually show one trick per clip, each engineered until it looks right. Researchers at UC Berkeley and Stanford taught a Unitree G1 robot to sprint, spin-kick, crawl, dance and land aerial cartwheels using one training setup with shared settings.
Updated Sep 13
As of May 2026: Academic partner in Evo development and phage research
Stanford and Arc Institute researchers used an AI called Evo to write genetic code for 302 bacteriophage viruses from scratch. Sixteen of them worked—they replicated, killed bacteria, and some even outperformed the natural virus they were modeled on. It's the first time a machine has designed complete, functional genomes without human input on gene selection or arrangement.
Updated May 19
As of May 2026: Lead research institution on monolithic 3D chip development
A team from Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Penn, and MIT built a true 3D chip stacking memory directly on logic at a U.S. commercial foundry. Presented at December's IEEE electron devices conference, it beats conventional flat chips by 4x in tests and could deliver 1,000x energy efficiency gains in future generations. It uses carbon nanotube transistors and resistive RAM built at low temperatures, creating vertical data highways instead of today's horizontal crawl.
Updated May 16
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