QUANTUM COMPUTING just got even more bonkers with the latest announcement from D-Wave. The company’s “most advanced” quantum computer features the first 2,000-qubit processor, doubling the capacity of the previous D-Wave 2X model currently deployed in a joint venture between Google and NASA. D-Wave modestly admitted that this gives the firm a serious march on others in the field.

Kim Kardashian has been tied up and held at gunpoint in Paris by robbers who stole millions of pounds worth of jewellery. The reality star was photographed boarding a private plane at Le Bourget airport alongside her bodyguard and personal assistant hours after the raid at an exclusive private apartment building in the French capital. A police official in Paris …

A frog named Toughie, likely the last of his species, died quietly in his enclosure at the Atlanta Botanical Garden this week. Toughie was the last known living Rabbs’ fringe-limbed tree frog in captivity. Toughie was estimated to be about 12 years old. Zoo Atlanta scientists and the Atlanta Botanical Garden led the effort to discover and formally name the …

Australian actress Margot Robbie has poked fun at the typical “sexy librarian” stereotype in a sketch that quickly became disturbing during the season premiere of Saturday Night Live. The Suicide Squad star used her high-profile appearance on the US sketch show to wear a T-shirt promoting equality for same-sex couples.

Scientists at the University of British Columbia have discovered a peptide which can disrupt the way bacteria forming abscesses behave. Abscesses are bacterial-induced lesions that are responsible for 3.2 million emergency room visits every year in the United States. Because antibiotics seldom work on them, standard treatment for abscesses involves cutting out the infected tissue or draining it.

The Swedish Association for Sexuality Education has released a PSA asking NASA to rocket some condoms to space. Today it’s World Contraception Day – A day dedicated to contraceptives that give humans the option to decide if and when to have kids, one of the most important decisions a person can make. The condom might look simple, but it is …

U of S Scientists have found caffeine based compounds prevent the death of brain cells which produce dopamine. Parkinson’s disease attacks the nervous system, causing uncontrolled shakes, muscle stiffness, and slow, imprecise movement, chiefly in middle-aged and elderly people. It is caused by the loss of brain cells (neurons) that produce dopamine, an essential neurotransmitter that allows neurons to “talk” …

The body of Barbara McClatchie Andrews, 74, who had been brutally strangled was found Friday morning Sept. 30 at km 14 of the Merida-Valladolid road near the shoulder. A widely-traveled photographer and writer whose work had been published by National Geographic and several other publications, McClatchie Andrews was the owner and director of a non-profit gallery in Mérida called In …

A woman has been arrested after a suitcase containing a living baby and an infant’s skeleton was found in her flat. Hannover police said a 19-year-old man living with the woman in the northern city discovered the case on Thursday and reported it to police.

Unusually warm Pacific Ocean temperatures contributed to a massive bloom of toxic algae off North America’s west coast last year, says a recent study. Nicknamed “the blob,” the bloom closed important fisheries and disrupted marine life including seabirds and sea lions. Scientists at the University of Washington and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration connects the unprecedented West Coast toxic …

Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow has come forward to shed light on the upcoming sequel, which he say swill be “more suspenseful and scary” than the original. On what to expect in the film: “It will be more suspenseful and scary. It’s just the way it’s designed; it’s the way the story plays out. I knew I wanted [J.A.] Bayona …