🔬 Your weekly roundup of some of the coolest non-Web3 science and tech stories.
✦ A quantum computer that 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 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 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.