Mohenjo-daro Shows Urban Growth Did Not Deepen Inequality
A study of 309 homes at Mohenjo-daro finds that residential inequality fell as the Indus city developed, suggesting that shared infrastructure and collective urban management may have limited wealth gaps
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IBM Opens Qiskit to High Performance Quantum Workflows
IBM has added native C API bindings to Qiskit v2.0, allowing Fortran, C++ and Julia programs to build and manipulate quantum circuits through Qiskit's Rust core without requiring Python as an intermediary.
Hyperbolic Surface Codes Push Quantum Error Correction Toward Modular Hardware
A University of Saskatchewan preprint describes geometry-optimized hyperbolic surface-code families, a routing algorithm for modular hardware, and circuit-level simulations of noisy inter-chip links
Radar Maps Possible Hidden Chambers Beneath Italy's Cave of Venuses
Ground-penetrating radar and electrical resistivity surveys at Italy's Grotta delle Veneri have detected underground anomalies that may connect with the known cave system but are not yet confirmed chambers
